19 U.S.C. § 1628 - U.S. Code - Unannotated Title 19. Customs Duties § 1628. Exchange of information

(1) insure compliance with any law or regulation enforced or administered by the Customs Service;

(2) administer or enforce multilateral or bilateral agreements to which the United States is a party;

(3) assist in investigative, judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings in the United States; and

(4) an action comparable to any of those described in paragraphs (1) through (4)  1 undertaken by a foreign customs or law enforcement agency, or in relation to a proceeding in a foreign country.

(1) Information may be provided to foreign customs and law enforcement agencies under subsection (a) only if the Secretary obtains assurances from such agencies that such information will be held in confidence and used only for the law enforcement purposes for which such information is provided to such agencies by the Secretary.

(2) No information may be provided under subsection (a) to any foreign customs or law enforcement agency that has violated any assurances described in paragraph (1).

(1)In general

The Secretary may authorize U.S. Customs and Border Protection to exchange information with any government agency of a USMCA country, if the Secretary--

(2)Definitions

In this subsection, the terms “USMCA” and “USMCA country” have the meanings given those terms in section 4502 of this title.