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October 12, 2006 

CBP Commissioner Outlines Agency's Five Priorities

In a speech yesterday to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC, Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) W. Ralph Basham outlined CBP's five priorities:

  1. Protecting business from unfair trade practices by enforcing antidumping and countervailing duty requirements to ensure the accurate collection of revenues linked to these trade actions;
  2. Enforcing trade laws related to admissibility, including anti-circumvention laws, trade agreements and trade legislation pertaining to imported textiles.
  3. Regulating trade practices to ensure strong controls over the revenue process and collecting the appropriate revenues due to the Treasury.
  4. Protecting the American public, American agriculture and the nation’s economy from the intentional or unintentional contamination of agricultural products or food.
  5. Protecting American business from theft of Intellectual Property Rights.
In his continuing effort to refocus CBP's mission on traditional customs issues, Commissioner Basham recently announced the creation of a new Office of Trade within CBP, effective October 15th. The new Office of Trade will bring together the functions of trade policy and program development that have been split among three CBP offices—the Office of Strategic Trade, the Office of Field Operations, and the Office of Regulations and Rulings.

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