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The bill improves CBP's ability to detect illegal imports and speed customs resolution by expanding data sharing, but it raises substantial privacy, commercial-competition, and transparency risks for small businesses, sellers, and some individuals.
Border communities and small importers: CBP's access to marketplace and logistics data will improve detection of misdeclared or illegal imports, helping prevent dangerous or counterfeit goods from reaching consumers.
Small-business owners and rights holders (including nonprofits): Allowing CBP to share nonpublic marketplace and logistics data with more parties helps resolve customs clearance and enforcement issues faster, reducing delays and compliance costs.
Small-business owners and tech workers: Raising the legal disclosure standard to 'reasonable suspicion' creates a clearer threshold that may reduce arbitrary or overbroad disclosures of importer data.
Small-business owners, tech workers, and immigrants: Expanding nonpublic data sharing with marketplaces and broadly defined 'other parties' increases the risk that sensitive business and personal information will be exposed, raising privacy and surveillance concerns.
Small importers and competitors: Broader data disclosures could reveal supplier networks, pricing, or other commercially sensitive information, harming competition and imposing commercial injury on smaller firms.
Small-business owners and tech workers: Granting CBP discretion to release information to a loosely defined category of 'other parties' may produce inconsistent or opaque disclosure practices, complicating compliance and legal predictability for businesses.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Tightens CBP's disclosure standard to "reasonable suspicion" and expands authority to share nonpublic marketplace- and logistics-generated information with more parties, including any party with an interest.
Introduced August 1, 2025 by Charles Ernest Grassley · Last progress August 1, 2025
Changes how U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) may share nonpublic information about imported goods: it raises the disclosure standard from the looser term "suspects" to the legal standard "has a reasonable suspicion," and it expands the kinds of marketplace- and logistics-generated information CBP may disclose and the range of permitted recipients, including any party with an interest as determined by the Commissioner. The amendment clarifies that information provided by online marketplaces, market platforms, consignment operators, freight forwarders, and other entities involved in sales or importation can be shared with a broader set of parties.