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19 U.S.C. § 3904 — Regulatory and other authority

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19 U.S.C. § 3904 — Regulatory and other authority

**(a) In general** The President is authorized to and shall as necessary issue such proclamations, regulations, licenses, and orders, and conduct such investigations, as may be necessary to carry out this chapter. **(b) Recordkeeping** Any United States person seeking to export from or import into the United States any rough diamonds shall keep a full record of, in the form of reports or otherwise, complete information relating to any act or transaction to which any prohibition imposed under [section 3903(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title19-section3903/a&num=0&edition=prelim) applies. The President may require such person to furnish such information under oath, including the production of books of account, records, contracts, letters, memoranda, or other papers, in the custody or control of such person. **(c) Oversight** The President shall require the appropriate Government agency to conduct annual reviews of the standards, practices, and procedures of any entity in the United States that issues Kimberley Process Certificates for the exportation from the United States of rough diamonds to determine whether such standards, practices, and procedures are in accordance with the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme. The President shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on each annual review under this subsection.

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19 U.S.C. § 3901 — Findings

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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19 U.S.C. § 3904 — Regulatory and other authority

Page 1033 TITLE 19—CUSTOMS DUTIES § 3907 Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries EFFECTIVE DATE For effective date of this section, see section 15 of Pub. L. 108–19, set out as a note under section 3901 of this title. Executive Documents DELEGATION OF FUNCTIONS For assignment of functions of President under sub- sec. (b) of this section, see section 2 of Ex. Ord. No. 13312, July 29, 2003, 68 F.R. 45151, set out as a note under section 3901 of this title. § 3904. Regulatory and other authority (a) In general The President is authorized to and shall as necessary issue such proclamations, regulations, licenses, and orders, and conduct such investiga- tions, as may be necessary to carry out this chapter. (b) Recordkeeping Any United States person seeking to export from or import into the United States any rough diamonds shall keep a full record of, in the form of reports or otherwise, complete information relating to any act or transaction to which any prohibition imposed under section 3903(a) of this title applies. The President may require such person to furnish such information under oath, including the production of books of account, records, contracts, letters, memoranda, or other papers, in the custody or control of such person. (c) Oversight The President shall require the appropriate Government agency to conduct annual reviews of the standards, practices, and procedures of any entity in the United States that issues Kim- berley Process Certificates for the exportation from the United States of rough diamonds to de- termine whether such standards, practices, and procedures are in accordance with the Kim- berley Process Certification Scheme. The Presi- dent shall transmit to the appropriate congres- sional committees a report on each

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