---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 1304a"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "1304a"
heading: "Technical assistance to U.S. Customs and Border Protection"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/1304a"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Tariff Act of 1930"
  - "Subtitle II — Special Provisions"
  - "Part I — Miscellaneous"
---

# §1304a. Technical assistance to U.S. Customs and Border Protection


The [Secretary](/usc/19/1681.md?p=1) of Agriculture shall make available to U.S. Customs and Border Protection technical assistance related to the identification of produce represented as grown in the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) when it is not in fact grown in the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–79, title XII, § 12309(a), Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 991.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Agricultural Act of 2014, and not as part of the Tariff Act of 1930 which comprises this chapter.