Illegal textiles worth $4 million seized by CBP in Feb 2006

17 Feb '06

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US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) informed that it has hired 45 additional personnel to bolster US textile law enforcement efforts and during the month of February seized $4 million in illegal textiles trying to make their way into the country.

"The wool, cotton, polyester, will not be pulled over our eyes," stated CBP Acting Commissioner, Deborah J Spero. "Import and international trade specialists, laboratory and data analysts, auditors and attorneys are concentrating their efforts on enforcing our textile laws and are continuing to seize illegal goods."

"We are also pleased to announce that, on the request of Congress, 45 textile enforcement personnel have been hired and are already reinforcing our textile enforcement efforts."

In a February 2, 2006, CBP stated that $10 million in misdescribed textile products had been seized in the previous four months; since that reporting, products worth an additional $4 million have been seized.

During the month of February, CBP has made a series of 25 seizures including illegal transshipments and misdescription of merchandise to avoid quotas. Investigations on these seizure cases are ongoing.

In addition to our continuing enforcement efforts, CBP is also initiating special operations to detect and deter fraudulent activity.

Last year, Congress appropriated an additional $4.75 million for CBP to increase textile enforcement efforts including hiring 45 additional personnel that would be solely dedicated to this effort.

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