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CBP Launches Trade Facilitation and Enforcement Webpage

Release Date: 
September 12, 2016

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently launched the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 webpage as a means to provide the trade community information on TFTEA related issues. The webpage showcases news updates on trade enforcement and trade facilitation efforts in areas such as forced labor, anti-dumping countervailing duties, and the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), as well as the latest on community engagement.

TFTEA, as the Act is commonly referred to, is the first piece of comprehensive legislation for CBP since the Department of Homeland Security was created in 2003, designed to ensure a fair and competitive trade environment.

For more information, please click here: https://www.cbp.gov/trade/trade-enforcement/tftea.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.

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February 9, 2017
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