U.S. Customs and Border Protection to Hold Annual Trade Symposium December 9-10 , 2004
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that it will hold its 5th annual Trade Symposium on December 9-10, 2004. The trade symposium will be held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC. This year's theme is "Security and Facilitation of Trade: The Way Forward." The event will include discussions between senior CBP managers and representatives of the international trade and transportation community. Panels for the symposium will include a Department of Homeland Security/Border Transportation Security Executive roundtable, Trade Act of 2002 implementation, Bioterrorism Act of 2002, the Container Security Initiative (CSI), and the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). Registration for the symposium will commence in October on CBP's web site at www.cbp.gov.