and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to improve data access necessary to facilitate trade-based money laundering investigations. (b) Assessment of new technologies The report required by subsection (a) shall include an assessment of the benefits and feasibility of integrating new technologies, including distributed ledger technology and quantum ledger technology, into the processes of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the customs services of foreign jurisdictions with which the United States has trade agreements in effect in order to facilitate the immediate, secure, and complete transfer between jurisdictions of lists of goods and related invoices and bills of lading. (c) Definitions In this section: (1) Appropriate congressional committees The term appropriate congressional committees means— (A) the Caucus on International Narcotics Control, the Committee on Finance, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate