---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 3902"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "3902"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/3902"
units:
  - "Chapter 25 — Clean Diamond Trade"
---

# §3902. Definitions


In this chapter:

- (1) **Appropriate congressional committees—** The term “appropriate congressional committees” means the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.
- (2) **Controlled through the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme—** An importation or exportation of [rough diamonds](#9) is “controlled through the [Kimberley Process Certification Scheme](#6)” if it is an importation from the territory of a [Participant](#7) or exportation to the territory of a [Participant](#7) of [rough diamonds](#9) that is—
  - (A) carried out in accordance with the [Kimberley Process Certification Scheme](#6), as set forth in regulations promulgated by the President; or
  - (B) controlled under a system determined by the President to meet substantially the [standards](/usc/19/2576b.md?p=5), practices, and procedures of the [Kimberley Process Certification Scheme](#6).
- (3) **Exporting authority—** The term “exporting authority” means 1 or more entities designated by a [Participant](#7) from whose territory a shipment of [rough diamonds](#9) is being exported as having the authority to validate the [Kimberley Process Certificate](#5).
- (4) **Importing authority—** The term “importing authority” means 1 or more entities designated by a [Participant](#7) into whose territory a shipment of [rough diamonds](#9) is imported as having the authority to enforce the laws and regulations of the [Participant](#7) regulating imports, including the verification of the [Kimberley Process Certificate](#5) accompanying the shipment.
- (5) **Kimberley Process Certificate—** The term “Kimberley Process Certificate” means a forgery resistant document of a [Participant](#7) that demonstrates that an importation or exportation of [rough diamonds](#9) has been controlled through the [Kimberley Process Certification Scheme](#6) and contains the minimum elements set forth in Annex I to the [Kimberley Process Certification Scheme](#6).
- (6) **Kimberley Process Certification Scheme—** The term “Kimberley Process Certification Scheme” means those [standards](/usc/19/2576b.md?p=5), practices, and procedures of the international certification scheme for [rough diamonds](#9) presented in the document entitled “Kimberley Process Certification Scheme” referred to in the Interlaken Declaration on the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme for [Rough Diamonds](#9) of November 5, 2002.
- (7) **Participant—** The term “Participant” means a [state](/usc/19/2577.md?p=2), customs territory, or regional economic integration organization identified by the Secretary of State.
- (8) **Person—** The term “person” means an individual or entity.
- (9) **Rough diamond—** The term “rough diamond” means any diamond that is unworked or simply sawn, cleaved, or bruted and classifiable under subheading 7102.10, 7102.21, or 7102.31 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the [United States](#10).
- (10) **United States—** The term “United States”, when used in the geographic sense, means the several [States](/usc/19/2577.md?p=2), the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States.
- (11) **United States person—** The term “United States person” means—
  - (A) any [United States](#10) citizen or any alien admitted for permanent residence into the [United States](#10);
  - (B) any entity organized under the laws of the [United States](#10) or any jurisdiction within the [United States](#10) (including its foreign branches); and
  - (C) any [person](#8) in the [United States](#10).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–19, § 3, Apr. 25, 2003, 117 Stat. 632.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, referred to in par. (9), is not set out in the Code. See Publication of Harmonized Tariff Schedule note set out under section 1202 of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Committee on International Relations of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Foreign Affairs of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Jan. 5, 2007.

### Effective Date

For effective date of this section, see section 15 of Pub. L. 108–19, set out as a note under section 3901 of this title.