Senate Finance Leadership Says 'More Work' Needed at CBP on Exclusion Order Enforcement
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, called on CBP to work to improve management of its enforcement of exclusion orders following a Government Accountability Office report on the subject, they said in a…
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joint statement (here). The GAO found a number of problems with CBP's management of International Trade Commission exclusion order enforcement in its report released Nov. 20 (see 1411200009). “As the gatekeepers of our borders, it is vital CBP work to enforce the trade laws that were designed to shield American innovators from imports that infringe their patents," the senators said. "But, as we learned from the GAO, there is clearly more work that needs to be done to better manage these processes and procedures.” CBP should "take steps, including those recommended in this report, and look forward to working with them to make border enforcement of intellectual property rights more efficient and more effective.” Wyden and Hatch requested that the GAO conduct the report in November 2013 (see 13110121).