---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 4402"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "4402"
heading: "Illicitly imported, exported, or trafficked cultural property, archaeological or ethnological materials, and fish, wildlife, and plants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/4402"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter V — Additional Enforcement Provisions"
---

# §4402. Illicitly imported, exported, or trafficked cultural property, archaeological or ethnological materials, and fish, wildlife, and plants

- (a) **In general—** The [Commissioner](/usc/19/4301.md?p=3) and the Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall ensure that appropriate personnel of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as the case may be, are trained in the detection, identification, detention, seizure, and forfeiture of cultural property, archaeological or ethnological materials, and fish, wildlife, and [plants](/usc/19/2575b.md?p=5), the importation, exportation, or trafficking of which violates the laws of the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9).
- (b) **Training—** The [Commissioner](/usc/19/4301.md?p=3) and the Director are authorized to accept training and other support [services](/usc/19/2576b.md?p=4) from experts outside of the Federal Government with respect to the detection, identification, detention, seizure, and forfeiture of cultural property, archaeological or ethnological materials, or fish, wildlife, and [plants](/usc/19/2575b.md?p=5) described in [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–125, title VI, § 606, Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 188.)