---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 4404"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "4404"
heading: "Report on actions taken by United States Trade Representative"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/4404"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter V — Additional Enforcement Provisions"
---

# §4404. Report on actions taken by United States Trade Representative


Not later than one year after the appointment of the first Chief Innovation and Intellectual Property Negotiator pursuant to paragraph (2) of [section 2171(b) of this title](/usc/19/2171.md?p=b), as amended by subsection (a),[^1] and annually thereafter, the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) [Trade Representative](/usc/19/1677.md?p=32) shall submit to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives a report describing in detail—

- (1) enforcement actions taken by the [Trade Representative](/usc/19/1677.md?p=32) during the one-year period preceding the submission of the report to ensure the protection of [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) innovation and intellectual property interests; and
- (2) other actions taken by the [Trade Representative](/usc/19/1677.md?p=32) to advance [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) innovation and intellectual property interests.

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–125, title VI, § 609(c), Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 190.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Subsection (a), referred to in text, means section 609(a) of Pub. L. 114–125, par. (1) of which amended section 2171(b)(2) of this title.