---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 4672"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "4672"
heading: "Membership; term"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/4672"
units:
  - "Chapter 29 — United States–mexico–canada Agreement Implementation"
  - "Subchapter VI — Labor Monitoring and Enforcement"
  - "Part C — Independent Mexico Labor Expert Board"
---

# §4672. Membership; term

- (a) **Membership—** The Board shall be composed of 12 [members](/usc/19/2571.md?p=8) who shall be appointed as follows:
  - (1) Four [members](/usc/19/2571.md?p=8) to be appointed by the Labor Advisory [Committee](/usc/19/2601.md?p=3) established under [section 2155(c)(1) of this title](/usc/19/2155.md?p=c-1) (or successor advisory [committee](/usc/19/2601.md?p=3)).
  - (2) Two [members](/usc/19/2571.md?p=8) appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in consultation with the Chair of the [Committee](/usc/19/2601.md?p=3) on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives.
  - (3) Two [members](/usc/19/2571.md?p=8) appointed by the president pro tempore of the Senate from among individuals recommended by the majority leader of the Senate and in consultation with the Chair of the [Committee](/usc/19/2601.md?p=3) on Finance of the Senate.
  - (4) Two [members](/usc/19/2571.md?p=8) appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives, in consultation with the Ranking [Member](/usc/19/2571.md?p=8) of the [Committee](/usc/19/2601.md?p=3) on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives.
  - (5) Two [members](/usc/19/2571.md?p=8) appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate from among individuals recommended by the minority leader of the Senate and in consultation with the Ranking [Member](/usc/19/2571.md?p=8) of the [Committee](/usc/19/2601.md?p=3) on Finance of the Senate.
- (b) **Term—** Except as provided in [subsection (c)](#c), [members](/usc/19/2571.md?p=8) of the Board shall serve for a term of 6 years.
- (c) **Extension of term—** If the Board determines, at the end of the 6-year period beginning on the date of the appointment of the last [member](/usc/19/2571.md?p=8) appointed in accordance with [subsection (a)](#a), that [Mexico](/usc/19/4631.md?p=3) is not fully in compliance with its [labor obligations](/usc/19/4631.md?p=2), a majority of the [members](/usc/19/2571.md?p=8) of the Board may determine to extend its term for 4 additional years. A new Board shall be appointed in accordance with [subsection (a)](#a) and shall serve for a single term of 4 years.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–113, title VII, § 732, Jan. 29, 2020, 134 Stat. 87.)