Title: A bill to amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to enhance the authority of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to share information with respect to merchandise suspected of violating intellectual property rights with rights holders and other interested parties.
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance

Summary:
This bill authorizes U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to request assistance from any appropriate party with an interest in imported merchandise when determining whether the merchandise is imported in violation of certain trademark and copyright laws. To permit the party to conduct examination and testing, CBP must provide them with specified information that appears on the merchandise, including its packaging and packing materials (including labels).

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1159 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1159

   To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to enhance the authority of U.S. 
  Customs and Border Protection to share information with respect to 
 merchandise suspected of violating intellectual property rights with 
              rights holders and other interested parties.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 15, 2021

 Mr. Grassley introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 to enhance the authority of U.S. 
  Customs and Border Protection to share information with respect to 
 merchandise suspected of violating intellectual property rights with 
              rights holders and other interested parties.

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

SECTION 1. ENHANCED AUTHORITY TO SHARE INFORMATION WITH RESPECT TO 
              MERCHANDISE SUSPECTED OF VIOLATING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 
              RIGHTS.

    Section 628A of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1628a) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (1) and 
        inserting the following:
            ``(1) shall provide to the person information that appears 
        on the merchandise, including--
                    ``(A) its packaging, materials, and containers, 
                including labels; and
                    ``(B) its packing materials and containers, 
                including labels; and''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (3), by striking ``; and'' and 
                inserting a semicolon;
                    (B) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) any other party with an interest in the merchandise, 
        as determined appropriate by the Commissioner.''.
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