---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 4692"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "4692"
heading: "Suspension of liquidation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/4692"
units:
  - "Chapter 29 — United States–mexico–canada Agreement Implementation"
  - "Subchapter VI — Labor Monitoring and Enforcement"
  - "Part E — Enforcement Under Rapid Response Labor Mechanism"
---

# §4692. Suspension of liquidation

- (a) **In general—** If the [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) files a request pursuant to article 31–A.4.2 of Annex 31–A of the [USMCA](/usc/19/4502.md?p=9), the [Trade Representative](/usc/19/4502.md?p=8) may direct the [Secretary](/usc/19/1681.md?p=1) of the Treasury to suspend liquidation for unliquidated [entries](/usc/19/1677.md?p=23) of goods from such covered facility until such time as the [Trade Representative](/usc/19/4502.md?p=8) notifies the [Secretary](/usc/19/1681.md?p=1) that a condition described in [subsection (b)](#b) has been met.
- (b) **Resumption of liquidation—** The conditions described in this subsection are the following:
  - (1) The rapid response labor panel has determined that there is no denial of rights at the covered facility within the meaning of such terms under Annex 31–A of the [USMCA](/usc/19/4502.md?p=9).
  - (2) A course of remediation for denial of rights has been agreed to and has been completed in accordance with the agreed-upon time.
  - (3) The denial of rights has been otherwise remedied.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–113, title VII, § 752, Jan. 29, 2020, 134 Stat. 89.)