Senate Finance to Host CBP Hearing Next Week
The Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing on CBP oversight featuring the agency’s commissioner, Gil Kerlikowske, at 2 p.m. on April 21, Finance said (here). The hearing will focus on CBP efforts to enhance trade facilitation and enforce U.S.…
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trade laws, including the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, the committee said. “Now that bipartisan customs legislation has been signed into law, job creators, manufacturers and workers have additional tools to successfully compete in a 21st century economy,” Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said in a statement. “These new tools will help facilitate trade, improve enforcement of our trade laws and enhance our nation’s competitiveness. We need to do all we can to make sure these changes are effectively implemented. This hearing will give members the first public opportunity to examine how the Customs and Border Protection Agency intends to implement these changes.”