19 U.S.C. § 2083 : US Code - Section 2083: Annual national trade and customs law violation estimates and enforcement strategy

Search 19 U.S.C. § 2083 : US Code - Section 2083: Annual national trade and customs law violation estimates and enforcement strategy

(a) Violation estimates
Not later than 30 days before the beginning of each fiscal year
after fiscal year 1991, the Commissioner of Customs shall submit to
the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and
the Committee on Finance of the Senate (hereafter in this section
referred to as the "Committees") a report that contains estimates
of -
(1) the number and extent of violations of the trade, customs,
and illegal drug control laws listed under subsection (b) of this
section that will likely occur during the fiscal year; and
(2) the relative incidence of the violations estimated under
paragraph (1) among the various ports of entry and customs
regions within the customs territory.
(b) Applicable statutory provisions
The Commissioner of Customs, after consultation with the
Committees -
(1) shall, within 60 days after August 20, 1990, prepare a list
of those provisions of the trade, customs, and illegal drug
control laws of the United States for which the United States
Customs Service has enforcement responsibility and to which the
reports required under subsection (a) of this section will apply;
and
(2) may from time-to-time amend the listing developed under
paragraph (1).
(c) Enforcement strategy
Within 90 days after submitting a report under subsection (a) of
this section for any fiscal year, the Commissioner of Customs shall
-
(1) develop a nationally uniform enforcement strategy for
dealing during that year with the violations estimated in the
report; and
(2) submit to the Committees a report setting forth the details
of the strategy.
(d) Compliance program
The Commissioner of Customs shall -
(1) devise and implement a methodology for estimating the level
of compliance with the laws administered by the Customs Service;
and
(2) include as an additional part of the report required to be
submitted under subsection (a) of this section for each of fiscal
years 1994, 1995, and 1996, an evaluation of the extent to which
such compliance was obtained during the 12-month period preceding
the 60th day before each such fiscal year.
(e) Confidentiality
The contents of any report submitted to the Committees under
subsection (a) or (c)(2) of this section are confidential and
disclosure of all or part of the contents is restricted to -
(1) officers and employees of the United States designated by
the Commissioner of Customs;
(2) the chairman of each of the Committees; and
(3) those members of each of the Committees and staff persons
of each of the Committees who are authorized by the chairman
thereof to have access to the contents.