PUBLIC LAW 107-210—AUG. 6, 2002 116 STAT. 989 operations, outreach, and education of the Customs Service $9,500,000 for fiscal year 2003. (2) AVAILABILITY. —Amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under paragraph (1) are authorized to remain available until expended. (b) USE OF FUNDS.— Of the amount appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under subsection (a), the following amounts are authorized to be made available for the following purposes: (1) IMPORT SPECIALISTS.— $1,463,000 for 21 Customs import specialists to be assigned to selected ports for documentation review to support detentions and exclusions and 1 additional Customs import specialist assigned to the Customs headquarters textile program to administer the program and provide oversight. (2) INSPECTORS.— $652,080 for 10 Customs inspectors to be assigned to selected ports to examine targeted high-risk shipments. (3) INVESTIGATORS. —(A) $1,165,380 for 10 investigators to be assigned to selected ports to investigate instances of smuggling, quota and trade agreement circumvention, and use of counterfeit visas to enter inadmissible goods. (B) $149,603 for 1 investigator to be assigned to the Customs headquarters textile program to coordinate and ensure implementation of textile production verification team results from an investigation perspective. (4) INTERNATIONAL TRADE SPECIALISTS.— $226,500 for 3 international trade specialists to be assigned to Customs headquarters to be dedicated to illegal textile transshipment policy issues, outreach, education, and other free trade agreement enforcement issues. (5) PERMANENT IMPORT SPECIALISTS FOR HONG KONG.— $500,000 for 2 permanent import specialist positions and $500,000 for 2 investigators to be assigned to Hong Kong to work with Hong Kong and other government authorities in Southeast Asia to assist such authorities in pursuing proactive enforcement of bilateral trade agreements. (6) VARIOUS PERMANENT TRADE POSITIONS.—$3,500,000 for the following: (A) 2 permanent positions to be assigned to the Customs attache office in Central America to address trade enforcement issues for that region. (B) 2 permanent positions to be assigned to the Customs attache office in South Africa to address trade enforcement issues pursuant to the African Growth and Opportunity Act (title I of Public Law 106-200). (C) 4 permanent positions to be assigned to the Customs attache office in Mexico to address the threat of illegal textile transshipment through Mexico and other related issues under the North American Free Trade Agreement Act. (D) 2 permanent positions to be assigned to the Customs attache office in Seoul, South Korea, to address the trade issues in the geographic region. (E) 2 permanent positions to be assigned to the proposed Customs attache office in New Delhi, India, to
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