CBP, Other Agencies Examine Interagency Trade Enforcement Collaboration
CBP's Commercial Targeting and Analysis Center hosted an Aug. 26 meeting between 11 federal agencies involved in the regulation of imports, said CBP in a press release. The meeting, "showcased CBP’s leading role in interagency coordination for protecting American consumers from dangerous imported products" and provided a forum for each partner government agency to present their top areas of import safety risk and their plans for addressing those risks through trade targeting operations in the coming year," said CBP.
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About 125 people attended the meeting, said CBP. In addition to CBP, agencies in attendance were the Animal, Plant, and Health Inspection Service (APHIS); Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC); Food and Drug Administration(FDA); Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS); Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS); National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA); and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). An executive order earlier this year raised the profile for interagency collaboration on trade as an Obama administration priority (see 14021928).