HR7812-119

In Committee

Securing Accountability in Foreign Entries Act

119th Congress Introduced Mar 5, 2026

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, Securing Accountability in Foreign Entries Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting importers, exporters, and commercial firms. The main policy domain is Trade, Immigration, Finance.

Who Benefits and How

importers, exporters, and commercial firms may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, importers, exporters, and commercial firms may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section HD7786D7BCB2D400393F27BBD34D71589: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Securing Accountability in Foreign Entries Act.
  • Section HD295BAF4434D40AFB03862A720BE4DD3: 2. Requirement that importer of record be located in the United States Section 484(a)(2)(B) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1484(a)(2)(B)) is amended— by...
  • Section HF09838FB06374F8896932B9DDDFCCFAC: 3. Responsibility of importer of record for payment of duties Section 484(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1484(a)(1)) is amended— in subparagraph...
  • Section HB8D66EABBE8B4527A297070FB3F3983A: 4. Increase in bonding requirement for importers of record Except as provided by subsections (c) and (d), the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Securing Accountability in Foreign Entries Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting importers, exporters, and commercial firms.

Key Policy Areas

Trade, Immigration, Finance

Primary Purpose

This bill, Securing Accountability in Foreign Entries Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting importers, exporters, and commercial firms.

Policy Domains

Trade Immigration Finance

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • importers, exporters, and commercial firms
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importers, exporters, and commercial firms: ,
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • importers, exporters, and commercial firms
Model: codex-gpt-5 | Version: bill_summary_v2 | Source: ih
federal implementing agencies: ,
importers, exporters, and commercial firms: ,

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Mar 5, 2026

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Mar 5, 2026

Introduced in House

Mar 5, 2026

Mr. Arrington introduced the following bill; which was referred to …

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Trade Immigration Finance
Actor Mappings
"the_commission"
→ The commission identified in the operative section

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