UPDATED USPS Act

I 118TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 4023 To strengthen the requirements relating to advance electronic information for cargo, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JUNE 12, 2023 Mr. EZELL (for himself and Mr. KUSTOFF) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addi- tion to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider- ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To strengthen the requirements relating to advance electronic information for cargo, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Uniform Postal Data 4 Acquisition for Transparency and Early Detection within 5 the United States Postal Service Act’’ or the ‘‘UPDATED 6 USPS Act’’. 7 VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:06 Jul 12, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4023.IH H4023 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 4023 IH SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO 1 ADVANCE ELECTRONIC INFORMATION FOR 2 CARGO. 3 (a) ELIMINATION OF RESTRICTION ON USE OF AD- 4 VANCE ELECTRONIC INFORMATION FOR COMMERCIAL EN- 5 FORCEMENT.—Section 343(a)(3)(F) of the Customs Bor- 6 der Security Act of 2002 (19 U.S.C. 1415(a)(3)(F)) is 7 amended by striking ‘‘, and shall’’ and all that follows 8 through ‘‘thereunder’’. 9 (b) ELIMINATION OF WAIVERS OF REQUIREMENT TO 10 TRANSMIT ADVANCE ELECTRONIC INFORMATION FOR 11 COUNTRIES.— 12 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 343(a)(3)(K)(vi) of 13 the Customs Border Security Act of 2002 (19 14 U.S.C. 1415(a)(3)(K)(vi)) is amended— 15 (A) by striking subclauses (II), (III), and 16 (IV); and 17 (B) by striking ‘‘(I) Notwithstanding’’ and 18 inserting ‘‘Notwithstanding’’. 19 (2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 20 by paragraph (1) take effect on the date that is 180 21 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. 22 (c) REQUIREMENT TO REFUSE SHIPMENTS FOR 23 WHICH ADVANCE ELECTRONIC INFORMATION IS NOT 24 TRANSMITTED.—Section 343(a)(3)(K)(vii) of the Cus- 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:06 Jul 12, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4023.IH H4023 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 3 •HR 4023 IH toms Border Security Act of 2002 (19 U.S.C. 1 1415(a)(3)(K)(vii)) is amended to read as follows: 2 ‘‘(vii) The Commissioner shall refuse entry 3 for any international mail shipments described 4 in clause (i) received after December 31, 2023, 5 for which the information described in para- 6 graphs (1) and (2) is not transmitted as re- 7 quired under this subparagraph.’’. 8 (d) INCLUSION OF LETTER CLASS MAIL; PUBLICA- 9 TION OF NUMBER OF SHIPMENTS FOR WHICH ADVANCE 10 ELECTRONIC INFORMATION NOT TRANSMITTED.—Sec- 11 tion 343(a)(3)(K) of the Customs Border Security Act of 12 2002 (19 U.S.C. 1415(a)(3)(K)) is amended— 13 (1) by redesignating clauses (viii) and (ix) as 14 clauses (x) and (xi), respectively; and 15 (2) by inserting after clause (vii) the following: 16 ‘‘(viii) Not later than December 31, 2023, 17 the Postal Service shall arrange for the trans- 18 mission to the Commissioner of the information 19 described in paragraphs (1) and (2) for all 20 international mail shipments. 21 ‘‘(ix) Not less frequently than every 30 22 days, the Postal Service shall publish on a pub- 23 licly accessible internet website the number of 24 international mail shipments for which the in- 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:06 Jul 12, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4023.IH H4023 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 4 •HR 4023 IH formation described in paragraphs (1) and (2) 1 was not transmitted to the Commissioner under 2 this subparagraph during the preceding 30-day 3 period.’’. 4 (e) MONTHLY REPORT.—Section 343(a) of the Cus- 5 toms Border Security Act of 2002 (19 U.S.C. 1415(a)) 6 is amended by adding at the end the following: 7 ‘‘(6) MONTHLY REPORT.—Not later than 90 8 days after the date of the enactment of the UP- 9 DATED USPS Act, and every 30 days thereafter, 10 the Secretary shall publish, for the preceding 30-day 11 period, the following information: 12 ‘‘(A) The total volume of international 13 mail shipments and other cargo received by the 14 Postal Service and private sector importers for 15 which advance electronic information is sub- 16 mitted under this section. 17 ‘‘(B) The number of packages included in 18 such shipments and cargo that U.S. Customs 19 and Border Protection requested to screen and 20 the number of packages provided for such 21 screening by the Postal Service and private sec- 22 tor importers. 23 ‘‘(C) An assessment of the results of in- 24 spections by U.S. Customs and Border Protec- 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:06 Jul 12, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4023.IH H4023 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 5 •HR 4023 IH tion of international mail facilities and private 1 sector importers, including the number of goods 2 inspected and seized. 3 ‘‘(D) The volume of Inbound Express Mail 4 Service items entered under section 5 13031(b)(9)(D) of the Consolidated Omnibus 6 Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 U.S.C. 7 58c(b)(9)(D)). 8 ‘‘(E) The total amount of fees paid to U.S. 9 Customs and Border Protection by the Postal 10 Service and private sector importers under that 11 section. 12 ‘‘(F) The number of international mail 13 shipments, disaggregated by letters and pack- 14 ages, received from each foreign country.’’. 15 (f) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.—Section 343 of the 16 Customs Border Security Act of 2002 (19 U.S.C. 1415) 17 is amended— 18 (1) in subsection (a)(3)(G), by striking the sec- 19 ond period at the end; 20 (2) by amending subsection (c) to read as fol- 21 lows: 22 ‘‘(c) SECRETARY DEFINED.—In this section, the 23 term ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of the Treasury and 24 the Secretary of Homeland Security acting jointly.’’; and 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:06 Jul 12, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H4023.IH H4023 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 6 •HR 4023 IH (3) by striking ‘‘the Customs Service’’ each 1 place it appears and inserting ‘‘U.S. Customs and 2 Border Protection’’. 3 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 01:06 Jul 12, 2023 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H4023.IH H4023 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS