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19 U.S.C. § 4346 — Joint strategic plan for the enforcement of intellectual property rights
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The Commissioner and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall include in the joint strategic plan required by [section 4314 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section4314&num=0&edition=prelim)—
(1) a description of the efforts of the Department of Homeland Security to enforce intellectual property rights;
(2) a list of the 10 United States ports of entry at which U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seized the most merchandise, both by volume and by value, that infringes intellectual property rights during the most recent 2-year period for which data are available; and
(3) a recommendation for the optimal allocation of personnel, resources, and technology to ensure that U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are adequately enforcing intellectual property rights.
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The Commissioner and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall include in the joint strategic plan required by [section 4314 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section4314&num=0&edition=prelim)—
(1) a description of the efforts of the Department of Homeland Security to enforce intellectual property rights;
(2) a list of the 10 United States ports of entry at which U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seized the most merchandise, both by volume and by value, that infringes intellectual property rights during the most recent 2-year period for which data are available; and
(3) a recommendation for the optimal allocation of personnel, resources, and technology to ensure that U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are adequately enforcing intellectual property rights.
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**(a) Establishment** The Commissioner and the Director shall establish and carry out on a fiscal year basis educational seminars to—
(1) improve the ability of personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to classify and appraise articles imported into the United States in accordance with the customs and trade laws of the United States;
(2) improve the trade enforcement efforts of personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and personnel of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and
(3) otherwise improve the ability and effectiveness of personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and personnel of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to facilitate legitimate international trade.
**(b) Content**
(1) **Classifying and appraising imported articles** — In carrying out subsection (a)(1), the Commissioner, the Director, and interested parties in the private sector selected under subsection (c) shall provide instruction and related instructional materials at each educational seminar carried out under this section to personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and, as appropriate, to personnel of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the following:
(A) Conducting a physical inspection of an article imported into the United States, including testing of samples of the article, to determine if the article is mislabeled in the manifest or other accompanying documentation.
(B) Reviewing the manifest and other accompanying documentation of an article imported into the United States to determine if the country of origin of the article listed in the manifest or other accompanying documentation is accurate.
(C) Customs valuation.
(D) Industry supply chains and other related matters as determined to be appropriate by the Commissioner.
(2) **T
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TITLE 19—CUSTOMS DUTIES
§ 4346
clude in the joint strategic plan required by sec-
tion 4314 of this title—
(1) a description of the efforts of the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security to enforce intel-
lectual property rights;
(2) a list of the 10 United States ports of
entry at which U.S. Customs and Border Pro-
tection has seized the most merchandise, both
by volume and by value, that infringes intel-
lectual property rights during the most recent
2-year period for which data are available; and
(3) a recommendation for the optimal alloca-
tion of personnel, resources, and technology to
ensure that U.S. Customs and Border Protec-
tion and U.S. Immigration and Customs En-
forcement are adequately enforcing intellec-
tual property rights.
(Pub. L. 114–125, title III, § 306, Feb. 24, 2016, 130
Stat. 152.)
§ 4346. Personnel dedicated to the enforcement of
intellectual property rights
(a) Personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Pro-
tection
The Commissioner and the Director of U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall en-
sure that sufficient personnel are assigned
throughout U.S. Customs and Border Protection
and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce-
ment, respectively, who have responsibility for
preventing the importation into the United
States of merchandise that infringes intellec-
tual property rights.
(b) Staffing of National Intellectual Property
Rights Coordination Center
The Commissioner shall—
(1) assign not fewer than 3 full-time employ-
ees of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to
the National Intellectual Property Rights Co-
ordination Center established under section
4344 of this title; and
(2) ensure that sufficient personnel are as-
signed to United States ports of entry to carry
out the directives of the Center.
(Pub. L. 1
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