§9225 Enhanced Inspection Authorities

Summary

The President must send a report to the right congressional committees no later than 180 days after August 2, 2017, and then once a year for 5 years. The report must name foreign sea port and airport operators who knowingly fail to inspect ships, planes, cargo, or other transport going to or from North Korea as required by United Nations Security Council resolutions, or who help move cargo, vessels, or aircraft tied to people or entities sanctioned by those resolutions, or who help the activities named in section 9214(a). The report must also say how other countries have followed the calls to de‑register North Korean government vessels, describe Iran’s compliance with the UN sanctions, identify vessels and aircraft tied to North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau, and explain what diplomatic and enforcement steps the President has taken. The report must be unclassified but may include a classified annex. It must include specific findings about ports in China (Dandong, Dalian, and others the President chooses), a list of named ports and Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport in Iran, the Russian ports Nakhodka, Vanino, and Vladivostok, and the Syrian ports Latakia, Banias, Tartous and Damascus International Airport. The Secretary of Homeland Security may require extra, layered screening for cargo bound for or landed in the United States if the cargo went through a port or airport the President identified as repeatedly failing to follow UN resolutions; if the vessel, aircraft, or conveyance entered North Korean waters or ports or landed there within the last 365 days; or if it is registered by a country the President found deficient under the report rules. The extra screening does not apply to ships or planes that went to North Korea only to deliver food, medicine, or other humanitarian supplies as described in section 9228(b)(3)(B), or to imports of food, medicine, or supplies into North Korea for humanitarian needs. Any vessel, aircraft, or conveyance used to help the activities in section 9214(a) and under U.S. jurisdiction may be seized and forfeited under chapter 46 of title 18 or part V of title IV of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1581 et seq.).