---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 1919"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "1919"
heading: "Penalties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/1919"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Trade Expansion Program"
  - "Subchapter III — Tariff Adjustment and Other Adjustment Assistance"
  - "Part II — Adjustment Assistance to Firms"
---

# §1919. Penalties


Whoever makes a false statement of a material fact knowing it to be false, or knowingly fails to disclose a material fact, or whoever willfully overvalues any security, for the purpose of influencing in any way the action of the [Secretary](/usc/19/1681.md?p=1) of Commerce under this part, or for the purpose of obtaining money, property, or anything of value under this part, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–794, title III, § 319, Oct. 11, 1962, 76 Stat. 892.)