---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 4322"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "4322"
heading: "Priority trade issues"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/4322"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter I — Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement"
---

# §4322. Priority trade issues

- (a) **In general—** The [Commissioner](/usc/19/4301.md?p=3) shall establish the following as priority trade issues:
  - (1) Agriculture programs.
  - (2) Antidumping and countervailing duties.
  - (3) Import safety.
  - (4) Intellectual property rights.
  - (5) Revenue.
  - (6) Textiles and wearing apparel.
  - (7) Trade agreements and preference programs.
- (b) **Modification—** The [Commissioner](/usc/19/4301.md?p=3) is authorized to establish new priority trade issues and eliminate, consolidate, or otherwise modify the priority trade issues described in [subsection (a)](#a) if the [Commissioner](/usc/19/4301.md?p=3)—
  - (1) determines it necessary and appropriate to do so; and
  - (2)
    - (A) in the case of new priority trade issues, submits to the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/19/1683.md?p=1) a summary of proposals to establish such new priority trade issues not later than 30 days after such new priority trade issues are to take effect; and
    - (B) in the case of existing priority trade issues, submits to the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/19/1683.md?p=1) a summary of proposals to eliminate, consolidate, or otherwise modify such existing priority trade issues not later than 60 days before such changes are to take effect.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–125, title I, § 117, Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 145.)