---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 3911"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "3911"
heading: "Reports"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/3911"
units:
  - "Chapter 25 — Clean Diamond Trade"
---

# §3911. Reports

- (a) **Annual reports—** Not later than 1 year after April 25, 2003, and every 12 months thereafter for such period as this chapter is in effect, the President shall transmit to the Congress a report—
  - (1) describing actions taken by [countries](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) that have exported [rough diamonds](/usc/19/3902.md?p=9) to the [United States](/usc/19/3902.md?p=10) during the preceding 12-month period to control the exportation of the diamonds through the [Kimberley Process Certification Scheme](/usc/19/3902.md?p=6);
  - (2) describing whether there is statistical information or other evidence that would indicate efforts to circumvent the [Kimberley Process Certification Scheme](/usc/19/3902.md?p=6), including cutting [rough diamonds](/usc/19/3902.md?p=9) for the purpose of circumventing the [Kimberley Process Certification Scheme](/usc/19/3902.md?p=6);
  - (3) identifying each [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) that, during the preceding 12-month period, exported [rough diamonds](/usc/19/3902.md?p=9) to the [United States](/usc/19/3902.md?p=10) and was exporting [rough diamonds](/usc/19/3902.md?p=9) not controlled through the [Kimberley Process Certification Scheme](/usc/19/3902.md?p=6), if the failure to do so has significantly increased the likelihood that those diamonds not so controlled are being imported into the [United States](/usc/19/3902.md?p=10); and
  - (4) identifying any problems or obstacles encountered in the implementation of this chapter or the Kimberly[^1] Process Certification Scheme.
- (b) **Semiannual reports—** For each [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) identified in [subsection (a)(3)](#a-3), the President, during such period as this chapter is in effect, shall, every 6 months after the initial report in which the [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) was identified, transmit to the Congress a report that explains what actions have been taken by the [United States](/usc/19/3902.md?p=10) or such [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) since the previous report to ensure that diamonds the exportation of which was not controlled through the [Kimberley Process Certification Scheme](/usc/19/3902.md?p=6) are not being imported from that [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) into the [United States](/usc/19/3902.md?p=10). The requirement to issue a semiannual report with respect to a [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) under this subsection shall remain in effect until such time as the [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) is controlling the importation and exportation of [rough diamonds](/usc/19/3902.md?p=9) through the [Kimberley Process Certification Scheme](/usc/19/3902.md?p=6).

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “Kimberley”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–19, § 12, Apr. 25, 2003, 117 Stat. 636.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### 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.

### Executive Documents

### Delegation of Functions

For assignment of functions of President under this section, see section 2 of Ex. Ord. No. 13312, July 29, 2003, 68 F.R. 45151, set out as a note under section 3901 of this title.