CBP: Securing America's Borders
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s top priority is to keep terrorists and their weapons from entering the United States. While welcoming all legitimate travelers and trade, CBP officers and agents enforce all applicable U.S. laws. CBP prevents narcotics, agricultural pests and smuggled goods from entering the country and also identifies and arrests those with outstanding criminal warrants. On a typical day last year, CBP officers welcomed 1.1 million people at the nation’s 327 land, air and seaports while almost 2,800 we apprehended at and between the ports of entry for illegal entry. |
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| | Protecting by Air, Land and Sea
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| | On a Typical Day in Fiscal Year 2010, CBP...
03/08/2011
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| | Field Operations/Port Security
All legal visitors and returning Americans, as well as sanctioned cargo, enter the U.S. through one of 327 land, air or seaports. CBP’s immigration inspections are the initial and most vital components of enforcing U.S. immigration laws and assuring border security. | |
| | Border Patrol Overview
01/05/2011
CBP’s Border Patrol is responsible for controlling the nearly 7,000 miles of borders with Canada and Mexico. The organization dates back to 1924, when Congress established it to fight illegal immigration. | |
| | Office of Air and Marine Overview
10/05/2010
This mission of the Office of Air and Marine is to protect the American people and Nation's critical infrastructure through the coordinated use air of integrated air and marine forces to detect, interdict and prevent acts of terrorism and the unlawful movement of people, illegal drugs and other contraband toward or across the borders of the United States. | |
| | Agriculture Programs
CBP agriculture specialists protect the United States from the threat of invasive pests and diseases with inspection and prevention efforts designed to keep contaminated agricultural items from entering the United States. These items, whether in commercial cargo with an international airline passenger or a pedestrian crossing the border, could cause serious damage to America’s crops, livestock and the environment. | |
| | C-TPAT: Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism
To all users of the C-TPAT Web site: The C-TPAT section of the CBP.GOV Web site is currently undergoing revision, and is being reorganized to better serve you in the future. Please note: if you have bookmarked any pages on this site, these bookmarks will no longer work and you will have to re-save these items in their new location. | |
| | CSI: Container Security Initiative
The Container Security Initiative increases security for maritime containerized cargo shipped to the United States from around the world. There are more than 40 ports participating in the program, representing more than 75 percent of the total of global shipments. | |
| | US-VISIT
US-VISIT is a technology tool that helps speed entry of international visitors into the United States by verifying their identity. The visitor's biometrics, such as a digital finger scan, are collected and checked against law enforcement databases. When the visitor arrives at the port of entry, CBP uses this identifier to verify the person at our port is the same person who received the visa. US-VISIT speeds entry into the U.S. while safeguarding against false identification. | |
| | Bioterrorism
The Bioterrorism Act (BTA) is intended to protect the health and safety of the people of the United States from an intended or actual terrorist attack on the nation's food supply. | |
| | Intellectual Property Rights
The trade in counterfeit and pirated goods threatens America’s innovation economy, the competitiveness of our businesses, the livelihoods of U.S. workers, and, in some cases, national security and the health and safety of consumers. The trade in these illegitimate goods is associated with smuggling and other criminal activities, and often funds criminal enterprises. CBP protects businesses and consumers every day through an aggressive IPR enforcement program. CBP targets and seizes imports of counterfeit and pirated goods, and enforces exclusion orders on patent-infringing and other IPR violative goods. | |
| | The WCO Framework: Making Safe Global Trade a Reality
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The World Customs Organization and its 166 Member customs administrations, through substantive consultative efforts with the trade, have developed the "Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade." This document, adopted by WCO members in June 2005, is the preeminent international guidance to ensure globally secure and facilitated supply chains. | |
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