‘‘(B) in the case of merchandise described 
in such paragraph with a domestic value that is 
less than $50,000, be liable for a civil penalty 
equal to 50 percent of the amount of such do-
mestic value for each such violation. 
‘‘(3) OTHER PENALTIES.—In addition to the 
penalties specified in paragraph (2), any violation of 
this section that violates any other provision of the 
customs and trade laws of the United States (as de-
fined in section 2 of the Trade Facilitation and 
Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4301)) 
shall be subject to any applicable civil or criminal 
penalty, including seizure and forfeiture, that may 
be imposed under that provision or title 18, United 
States Code.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
for the Tariff Act of 1930 is amended by inserting after 
the item relating to section 484b the following: 
‘‘Sec. 484c. Asset requirements applicable to nonresident importers.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Section 484c of the Tariff 
Act of 1930, as added by subsection (a)— 
(1) takes effect on the date of the enactment of 
this Act; and 
(2) applies with respect to merchandise entered, 
or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on 
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or after the date that is 180 days after such date 
of enactment. 
TITLE IV—COUNTERING 
CURRENCY UNDERVALUATION 
SEC. 401. INVESTIGATION OR REVIEW OF CURRENCY 
UNDERVALUATION UNDER COUNTERVAILING 
DUTY LAW. 
Section 702(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 
1671a(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(6) CURRENCY UNDERVALUATION.—For pur-
poses of a countervailing duty investigation under 
this subtitle in which the determinations under 
clauses (i) and (ii) of paragraph (1)(A) are affirma-
tive and the petition includes an allegation of cur-
rency undervaluation by the government of a coun-
try or any public entity within the territory of a 
country that meets the requirements of clause (i) of 
that paragraph, or for purposes of a review under 
subtitle C with respect to a countervailing duty 
order involving such an allegation, the administering 
authority shall examine in its investigation or review 
whether currency undervaluation by the government 
of a country or any public entity within the territory 
of a country is providing, directly or indirectly, a 
countervailable subsidy.’’. 
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SEC. 402. DETERMINATION OF BENEFIT WITH RESPECT TO 
CURRENCY UNDERVALUATION. 
Section 771(5)(E) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 
U.S.C. 1677(5)(E)) is amended— 
(1) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘, and’’ and in-
serting a comma; 
(2) in clause (iv), by striking the period at the 
end and inserting ‘‘, and’’; 
(3) by inserting after clause (iv) the following: 
‘‘(v) in the case of a transaction involving currency, 
if there is a difference between the amount of currency 
received in exchange for United States dollars and the 
amount of currency that the recipient would have received 
absent an undervalued currency.’’; and 
(4) in the flush text following clause (v), as 
added by paragraph (3), by adding at the end the 
following: ‘‘For purposes of clause (v), a determina-
tion of the existence and amount of a benefit from 
the exchange of an undervalued currency shall take 
into account a comparison of the exchange rates de-
rived from a methodology determined by the admin-
istering authority to be appropriate in light of the 
facts and circumstances to the relevant actual ex-
change rates. That determination shall rely on au-
thoritative information that is on the administrative 
record.’’. 
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TITLE V—PREVENTING DUTY 
EVASION 
SEC. 501. LIMITATION ON PROTEST AGAINST DECISIONS OF 
U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION OF 
CLAIMS OF EVASION OF ANTIDUMPING AND 
COUNTERVAILING DUTY ORDERS. 
The Tariff Act of 1930 is amended— 
(1) in section 514(b) (19 U.S.C. 1514(b))— 
(A) by striking ‘‘title, determinations’’ and 
inserting ‘‘title, or with respect to determina-
tions made under section 517 of this title which 
are reviewable under subsection (g) of such sec-
tion, determinations’’; and 
(B) by inserting after ‘‘a determination 
listed in section 516A of this title’’ the fol-
lowing: ‘‘or a determination listed in section 
517 of this title, as the case may be,’’; and 
(2) in section 517(h) (19 U.S.C. 1517(h)), by 
adding at the end before the period the following: ‘‘, 
except that any decision as to the liquidation or re-
liquidation of an entry of covered merchandise in ac-
cordance with a determination under subsection (c) 
and review under subsection (f), if applicable, shall 
not be subject to a protest of such decision filed in 
accordance with section 514’’. 
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SEC. 502. PROCEDURES FOR INVESTIGATING CLAIMS OF 
EVASION OF SAFEGUARD ACTIONS. 
(a) TARIFF ACT OF 1930.—Section 517 of the Tariff 
Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1517) is amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by adding at the end 
before the period the following: ‘‘AND SAFEGUARD 
ACTIONS’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
‘‘or’’ at the end; 
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; 
and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(C) an action taken under section 203 of 
the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2253).’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (5)(A), by inserting after 
‘‘applicable antidumping or countervailing du-
ties’’ the following: ‘‘or any applicable safe-
guard action’’; 
(3) in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subsection 
(b)(4), by inserting after ‘‘covered merchandise’’ 
each place it appears the following: ‘‘under subpara-
graph (A) or (B) of subsection (a)(3)’’; and 
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