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117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 4809 

To strengthen the requirements relating to advance electronic information 

for cargo, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022 

Mr. SCOTT of Florida introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 

referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

A BILL 

To strengthen the requirements relating to advance electronic 

information for cargo, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Uniform Postal Data 

5 Acquisition for Transparency and Early Detection within 

6 the United States Postal Service Act’’ or the ‘‘UPDATED 

7 USPS Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO 

2 ADVANCE ELECTRONIC INFORMATION FOR 

3 CARGO. 

4 (a) ELIMINATION OF RESTRICTION ON USE OF AD5 VANCE ELECTRONIC INFORMATION FOR COMMERCIAL EN6 FORCEMENT.—Section 343(a)(3)(F) of the Customs Bor7 der Security Act of 2002 (19 U.S.C. 1415(a)(3)(F)) is 

8 amended by striking ‘‘, and shall’’ and all that follows 

9 through ‘‘thereunder’’. 

10 (b) ELIMINATION OF WAIVERS OF REQUIREMENT TO

11 TRANSMIT ADVANCE ELECTRONIC INFORMATION FOR

12 COUNTRIES.— 

13 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 343(a)(3)(K)(vi) of 

14 the Customs Border Security Act of 2002 (19 

15 U.S.C. 1415(a)(3)(K)(vi)) is amended— 

16 (A) by striking subclauses (II), (III), and 

17 (IV); and 

18 (B) by striking ‘‘(I) Notwithstanding’’ and 

19 inserting ‘‘Notwithstanding’’. 

20 (2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 

21 by paragraph (1) take effect on the date that is 180 

22 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. 

23 (c) REQUIREMENT TO REFUSE SHIPMENTS FOR

24 WHICH ADVANCE ELECTRONIC INFORMATION IS NOT

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1 toms Border Security Act of 2002 (19 U.S.C. 

2 1415(a)(3)(K)(vii)) is amended to read as follows: 

3 ‘‘(vii) The Commissioner shall refuse entry 

4 for any international mail shipments described 

5 in clause (i) received after December 31, 2022, 

6 for which the information described in para7 graphs (1) and (2) is not transmitted as re8 quired under this subparagraph.’’. 

9 (d) INCLUSION OF LETTER CLASS MAIL; PUBLICA10 TION OF NUMBER OF SHIPMENTS FOR WHICH ADVANCE

11 ELECTRONIC INFORMATION NOT TRANSMITTED.—Sec12 tion 343(a)(3)(K) of the Customs Border Security Act of 

13 2002 (19 U.S.C. 1415(a)(3)(K)) is amended— 

14 (1) by redesignating clauses (viii) and (ix) as 

15 clauses (x) and (xi), respectively; and 

16 (2) by inserting after clause (vii) the following: 

17 ‘‘(viii) Not later than December 31, 2022, 

18 the Postal Service shall arrange for the trans19 mission to the Commissioner of the information 

20 described in paragraphs (1) and (2) for all 

21 international mail shipments. 

22 ‘‘(ix) Not less frequently than every 30 

23 days, the Postal Service shall publish on a pub24 licly accessible internet website the number of 

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1 formation described in paragraphs (1) and (2) 

2 was not transmitted to the Commissioner under 

3 this subparagraph during the preceding 30-day 

4 period.’’. 

5 (e) MONTHLY REPORT.—Section 343(a) of the Cus6 toms Border Security Act of 2002 (19 U.S.C. 1415(a)) 

7 is amended by adding at the end the following: 

8 ‘‘(6) MONTHLY REPORT.—Not later than 90 

9 days after the date of the enactment of the UP10 DATED USPS Act, and every 30 days thereafter, 

11 the Secretary shall publish, for the preceding 30-day 

12 period, the following information: 

13 ‘‘(A) The total volume of international 

14 mail shipments and other cargo received by the 

15 Postal Service and private sector importers for 

16 which advance electronic information is sub17 mitted under this section. 

18 ‘‘(B) The number of packages included in 

19 such shipments and cargo that U.S. Customs 

20 and Border Protection requested to screen and 

21 the number of packages provided for such 

22 screening by the Postal Service and private sec23 tor importers. 

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1 tion of international mail facilities and private 

2 sector importers, including the number of goods 

3 inspected and seized. 

4 ‘‘(D) The volume of Inbound Express Mail 

5 Service items entered under section 

6 13031(b)(9)(D) of the Consolidated Omnibus 

7 Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 U.S.C. 

8 58c(b)(9)(D)). 

9 ‘‘(E) The total amount of fees paid to U.S. 

10 Customs and Border Protection by the Postal 

11 Service and private sector importers under that 

12 section. 

13 ‘‘(F) The number of international mail 

14 shipments, disaggregated by letters and pack15 ages, received from each foreign country.’’. 

16 (f) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.—Section 343 of the 

17 Customs Border Security Act of 2002 (19 U.S.C. 1415) 

18 is amended— 

19 (1) in subsection (a)(3)(G), by striking the sec20 ond period at the end; 

21 (2) by amending subsection (c) to read as fol22 lows: 

23 ‘‘(c) SECRETARY DEFINED.—In this section, the 

24 term ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of the Treasury and 

25 the Secretary of Homeland Security acting jointly.’’; and 


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1 (3) by striking ‘‘the Customs Service’’ each 

2 place it appears and inserting ‘‘U.S. Customs and 

3 Border Protection’’. 

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