Bill Reintroduced to Allow Sharing of Packing, Shipping Info With Rights Holders
Bills recently introduced in the House and Senate would expand information sharing for merchandise that CBP has a “reasonable suspicion” is counterfeit. The bill would allow CBP to share “packing and shipping information” with intellectual property rights holders, according to an Aug. 8 news release from Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., who reintroduced the Senate version.
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That includes information from online marketplaces, express consignment carriers, freight forwarders and “any other entity” that plays a role in or facilitates the sale or import of the goods, according to the bill text.
The bill would likewise broaden "the range of parties with whom CBP can disclose such information, including shipping companies and e-commerce sites where the product in question may be sold," Reps. Blake Moore, R-Utah, and Brad Schneider, D-Ill., said in a news release on their House version of the bill.
For example, the news release said: "A counterfeit electronics shipment from Shenzhen repeatedly enters via the Port of Los Angeles, using the same fake return address and tracking patterns. With this bill, CBP can share these patterns with carriers like UPS, DHL, and FedEx to intercept future parcels earlier in the pipeline."
An identical bill also was introduced in the Senate last year as an amendment to the FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (see 2409270055). Grassley and Hassan are filing this bill both as stand-alone legislation and as an amendment to the FY 2026 NDAA.