---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 267a"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "267a"
heading: "Foreign language proficiency awards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/267a"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — The Tariff and Related Provisions"
  - "Subtitle IV — Customs Administration"
  - "Part 2 — report, entry, and unlading of vessels and vehicles"
---

# §267a. Foreign language proficiency awards


Cash awards for foreign language proficiency may, under regulations prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/19/1681.md?p=1) of the Treasury, be paid to customs officers (as referred to in [section 267(e)(1) of this title](/usc/19/267.md?p=e-1)) to the same extent and in the same manner as would be allowable under subchapter III of [chapter 45](/usc/5/chptIII/sptC/ch45.md) of title 5 with respect to law enforcement officers (as defined by section 4521 of such title).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–66, title XIII, § 13812(b), Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 671.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 103–66, title XIII, § 13812(c)(2), Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 671, provided that: “Subsection (b) [enacting this section] takes effect on January 1, 1994.”