Title 19, Customs DutiesRelease 119-102
§4391 Allocation and Training of Personnel
Title 19 › CHAPTER 28 — TRADE FACILITATION AND TRADE ENFORCEMENT › SUBCHAPTER IV — PREVENTION OF EVASION OF ANTIDUMPING AND COUNTERVAILING DUTY ORDERS › Part II — Other Matters › § 4391
Summary
The Commissioner must, as much as possible, make sure U.S. Customs and Border Protection has enough staff who can stop and investigate "covered merchandise" entering the United States by evasion. Those staff must be sent to the ports with the highest risk to U.S. revenue, based on risk assessments, and must get proper training so they can better find and prevent evasion.
Full Legal Text
Title 19, §4391
Customs Duties, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
The Commissioner shall, to the maximum extent possible, ensure that U.S. Customs and Border Protection—
(1)employs sufficient personnel who have expertise in, and responsibility for, preventing and investigating the entry of covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States through evasion;
(2)on the basis of risk assessment metrics, assigns sufficient personnel with primary responsibility for preventing the entry of covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States through evasion to the ports of entry in the United States at which the Commissioner determines potential evasion presents the most substantial threats to the revenue of the United States; and
(3)provides adequate training to relevant personnel to increase expertise and effectiveness in the prevention and identification of entries of covered merchandise into the customs territory of the United States through evasion.
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Citation
19 U.S.C. § 4391
Title 19, Customs Duties
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102