The President is authorized to and shall as necessary issue such proclamations, regulations, licenses, and orders, and conduct such investigations, as may be necessary to carry out this chapter.
Any United States person seeking to export from or import into the United States any rough diamonds shall keep a full record of, in the form of reports or otherwise, complete information relating to any act or transaction to which any prohibition imposed under section 3903(a) of this title applies. The President may require such person to furnish such information under oath, including the production of books of account, records, contracts, letters, memoranda, or other papers, in the custody or control of such person.
The President shall require the appropriate Government agency to conduct annual reviews of the standards, practices, and procedures of any entity in the United States that issues Kimberley Process Certificates for the exportation from the United States of rough diamonds to determine whether such standards, practices, and procedures are in accordance with the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme. The President shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on each annual review under this subsection.
19 U.S.C. § 3904
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
EFFECTIVE DATEFor effective date of this section, see section 15 of Pub. L. 108-19 set out as a note under section 3901 of this title.
EXECUTIVE DOCUMENTS
DELEGATION OF FUNCTIONSFor assignment of functions of President under this section, see section 2 of Ex. Ord. No. 13312, July 29, 2003, 68 F.R. 45151, set out as a note under section 3901 of this title.
- Kimberley Process Certification Scheme
- The term "Kimberley Process Certification Scheme" means those standards, practices, and procedures of the international certification scheme for rough diamonds presented in the document entitled "Kimberley Process Certification Scheme" referred to in the Interlaken Declaration on the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme for Rough Diamonds of November 5, 2002.
- United States person
- The term "United States person" means-(A) any United States citizen or any alien admitted for permanent residence into the United States;(B) any entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including its foreign branches); and(C) any person in the United States.
- appropriate congressional committees
- The term "appropriate congressional committees" means the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.
- person
- The term "person" means an individual or entity.