---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 4644"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "4644"
heading: "Assessments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/4644"
units:
  - "Chapter 29 — United States–mexico–canada Agreement Implementation"
  - "Subchapter VI — Labor Monitoring and Enforcement"
  - "Part A — Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement"
---

# §4644. Assessments

- (a) **Ongoing assessments—** For the 10-year period beginning on January 29, 2020, except as provided in [subsection (b)](#b), the Interagency Labor Committee shall assess on a biannual basis the extent to which [Mexico](/usc/19/4631.md?p=3) is in compliance with its obligations under Annex 23–A of the [USMCA](/usc/19/4502.md?p=9).
- (b) **Consultation relating to annual assessment—** On or after the date that is 5 years after January 29, 2020, the Interagency Labor Committee may consult with the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/19/4502.md?p=1) with respect to the frequency of the assessment required under [subsection (a)](#a) and, with the approval of both such committees, may conduct such assessment on an annual basis for the following 5 years.
- (c) **Matters to be included—** The assessment required under [subsection (a)](#a) shall also include each of the following:
  - (1) Whether [Mexico](/usc/19/4631.md?p=3) is providing adequate funding to implement and enforce [Mexico](/usc/19/4631.md?p=3)’s labor reform, including specifically whether [Mexico](/usc/19/4631.md?p=3) has provided funding consistent with commitments made to contribute the following amounts for the labor reform implementation budget:
    - (A) $176,000,000 for 2021.
    - (B) $325,000,000 for 2022.
    - (C) $328,000,000 for 2023.
  - (2) The extent to which any legal challenges to [Mexico](/usc/19/4631.md?p=3)’s labor reform have succeeded in that court system.
  - (3) The extent to which [Mexico](/usc/19/4631.md?p=3) has implemented the federal and [state](/usc/19/2577.md?p=2) labor courts, registration entity, and federal and [state](/usc/19/2577.md?p=2) conciliation centers consistent with the timeline set forth for [Mexico](/usc/19/4631.md?p=3)’s labor reform, in the September 2019 policy statements by the Government of [Mexico](/usc/19/4631.md?p=3) on a national strategy for implementation of the labor justice system, and in subsequent policy statements in accordance with [Mexico](/usc/19/4631.md?p=3)’s labor reform.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–113, title VII, § 714, Jan. 29, 2020, 134 Stat. 82.)