Sens. Graham, Brown Float Textile Enforcement Bill
Sens. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, introduced legislation in recent days to better equip CBP in tackling counterfeit textile imports, the two lawmakers said in a release (here). The Textile Enforcement and Security Act, S-892, isn’t yet publicly…
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available. According to the release, however, the bill would require seizure of textile and apparel imports with unverified or falsified country of origin. The legislation would require “CBP to use the fines collected from textile and apparel import violations to pay for training of specialists in textile and apparel enforcement,” said the release, alongside several other mandates in the bill. The legislation failed to advance in the last Congress (see 13112220).