---
kind: "unit"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
key: "ch28/schVII"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter VII"
heading: "Preclearance Operations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/ch28-schVII"
sections_count: 6
---

# Subchapter VII — Preclearance Operations

Title 19 — Customs Duties › Chapter 28 — Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement

## Sections

- [§4431. Definitions](/usc/19/4431.md)
- [§4432. Establishment of preclearance operations](/usc/19/4432.md)
- [§4433. Notification and certification to Congress](/usc/19/4433.md)
- [§4434. Lost and stolen passports](/usc/19/4434.md)
- [§4435. Recovery of initial U.S. Customs and Border Protection preclearance operations costs](/usc/19/4435.md)
- [§4436. Application to new and existing preclearance operations](/usc/19/4436.md)