CBP Officials Give FY 2011 Trade Statistics, Collected Over $37B, Etc.
On February 29, 2012, Acting Assistant Commissioner Kevin McAleenan and other U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials testified before the House Subcommittee on Homeland Security on CBP's security and trade facilitation efforts in fiscal year 2011. According to the officials, in FY 2011, CBP officers at 331 ports of entry inspected 340 million travelers and more than 105.9 million cars, trucks, buses, trains, vessels and aircrafts. CBP also processed nearly $2.3 trillion in trade in FY 2011, a 14 percent increase over FY 2010, and collected over $37 billion in total duties, taxes, and fees, as well as over $355 million in antidumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD). CBP officers also conducted 24,800 seizures of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) violations.
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(See ITT's Online Archives 12030103 for summary of other topics on which the CBP officials testified, including new risk-based examinations for pharmaceuticals, electronics, and apparel and the agency's IP and AD/CV priorities. See CBP's testimony for remarks on northern, southern and coastal border security and trade, etc.)