CBP, ICE Officers Complete Training on Textile Exporter Verification
A group of CBP import specialists and ICE agents recently completed training in the prevention of textile trade fraud, said ICE in a Sept. 4 press release (here). Receiving instruction on “how to interview personnel at foreign factories and how…
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to properly analyze and review regulatory documents,” the officers will now become members of Textile Production Verification Teams, which are “elite groups of individuals who deploy to foreign textile factories that export goods to the United States, in order to verify production and manufacturing capabilities,” said ICE. Under the TPVT program, ICE agents and CBP officers visit “around 10 foreign countries and inspect hundreds of factories every year,” and “findings of impropriety are reported back to analysts and program managers at headquarters so that appropriate measures can be taken in the field and at ports and mailing facilities,” said the release. The training was created by the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, said ICE.