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19 U.S.C. § 3903 — Measures for the importation and exportation of rough diamonds
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**(a) Prohibition** The President shall prohibit the importation into, or exportation from, the United States of any rough diamond, from whatever source, that has not been controlled through the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.
**(b) Waiver** The President may waive the requirements set forth in subsection (a) with respect to a particular country for periods of not more than 1 year each, if, with respect to each such waiver—
(1) the President determines and reports to the appropriate congressional committees that such country is taking effective steps to implement the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme; or
(2) the President determines that the waiver is in the national interests of the United States, and reports such determination to the appropriate congressional committees, together with the reasons therefor.
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**(a) Prohibition** The President shall prohibit the importation into, or exportation from, the United States of any rough diamond, from whatever source, that has not been controlled through the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.
**(b) Waiver** The President may waive the requirements set forth in subsection (a) with respect to a particular country for periods of not more than 1 year each, if, with respect to each such waiver—
(1) the President determines and reports to the appropriate congressional committees that such country is taking effective steps to implement the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme; or
(2) the President determines that the waiver is in the national interests of the United States, and reports such determination to the appropriate congressional committees, together with the reasons therefor.
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Congress finds the following:
(1) Funds derived from the sale of rough diamonds are being used by rebels and state actors to finance military activities, overthrow legitimate governments, subvert international efforts to promote peace and stability, and commit horrifying atrocities against unarmed civilians. During the past decade, more than 6,500,000 people from Sierra Leone, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been driven from their homes by wars waged in large part for control of diamond mining areas. A million of these are refugees eking out a miserable existence in neighboring countries, and tens of thousands have fled to the United States. Approximately 3,700,000 people have died during these wars.
(2) The countries caught in this fighting are home to nearly 70,000,000 people whose societies have been torn apart not only by fighting but also by terrible human rights violations.
(3) Human rights and humanitarian advocates, the diamond trade as represented by the World Diamond Council, and the United States Government have been working to block the trade in conflict diamonds. Their efforts have helped to build a consensus that action is urgently needed to end the trade in conflict diamonds.
(4) The United Nations Security Council has acted at various times under chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations to address threats to international peace and security posed by conflicts linked to diamonds. Through these actions, it has prohibited all states from exporting weapons to certain countries affected by such conflicts. It has further required all states to prohibit the direct and indirect import of rough diamonds from Sierra Leone unless the diamonds are controlled under specified certificate of origin regimes and to prohibit absolutely th
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Not later than 24 months after the effective date of this chapter, the Comptroller General of the United States shall transmit a report to the Congress on the effectiveness of the provisions of this chapter in preventing the importation or exportation of rough diamonds that is prohibited under [section 3903 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section3903&num=0&edition=prelim). The Comptroller General shall include in the report any recommendations on any modifications to this chapter that may be necessary.
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TITLE 19—CUSTOMS DUTIES
§ 3903
(1) Appropriate congressional committees
The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means the Committee on Ways and
Means and the Committee on International
Relations of the House of Representatives, and
the Committee on Finance and the Committee
on Foreign Relations of the Senate.
(2) Controlled through the Kimberley Process
Certification Scheme
An importation or exportation of rough dia-
monds is ‘‘controlled through the Kimberley
Process Certification Scheme’’ if it is an im-
portation from the territory of a Participant
or exportation to the territory of a Partici-
pant of rough diamonds that is—
(A) carried out in accordance with the
Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, as
set forth in regulations promulgated by the
President; or
(B) controlled under a system determined
by the President to meet substantially the
standards, practices, and procedures of the
Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.
(3) Exporting authority
The term ‘‘exporting authority’’ means 1 or
more entities designated by a Participant
from whose territory a shipment of rough dia-
monds is being exported as having the author-
ity to validate the Kimberley Process Certifi-
cate.
(4) Importing authority
The term ‘‘importing authority’’ means 1 or
more entities designated by a Participant into
whose territory a shipment of rough diamonds
is imported as having the authority to enforce
the laws and regulations of the Participant
regulating imports, including the verification
of the Kimberley Process Certificate accom-
panying the shipment.
(5) Kimberley Process Certificate
The term ‘‘Kimberley Process Certificate’’
means a forgery resistant document of a Par-
ticipant that demonstrates that an importa-
tion or exportati
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