---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 4345"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "4345"
heading: "Joint strategic plan for the enforcement of intellectual property rights"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/4345"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter III — Import-Related Protection of Intellectual Property Rights"
---

# §4345. Joint strategic plan for the enforcement of intellectual property rights


The [Commissioner](/usc/19/4301.md?p=3) and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall include in the joint strategic plan required by [section 4314 of this title](/usc/19/4314.md)—

- (1) a description of the efforts of the Department of Homeland Security to enforce intellectual property rights;
- (2) a list of the 10 [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) ports of [entry](/usc/19/1677.md?p=23) at which U.S. Customs and Border Protection has seized the most merchandise, both by volume and by value, that infringes intellectual property rights during the most recent 2-year period for which data are available; and
- (3) a recommendation for the optimal allocation of personnel, resources, and technology to ensure that U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are adequately enforcing intellectual property rights.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–125, title III, § 306, Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 152.)