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The bill strengthens customs' ability to stop unsafe or infringing imports by expanding targeted information sharing, but it also widens disclosure of nonpublic commercial data—raising privacy, competitive, and compliance costs for small businesses and platforms.
Owners of copyrights and small businesses: U.S. Customs can share more detailed nonpublic supply‑chain information with rights‑holders and interested parties, improving the identification and stoppage of infringing or unsafe imports.
People concerned about surveillance and privacy: the bill raises the legal standard for sharing to 'reasonable suspicion,' which may reduce arbitrary or overly broad information‑sharing compared with a lower or vaguer standard.
Small businesses and sellers: expanded sharing of nonpublic commercial data increases risks to privacy and business confidentiality, exposing sensitive seller and shipment details to more external parties.
Small businesses and nonprofits: allowing designation of 'any other party with an interest' broadens who can receive import data and could let commercial competitors or third parties access sensitive information.
Marketplaces, freight forwarders and logistics firms: broader data‑sharing obligations create added compliance costs and potential legal exposure for platforms and service providers asked to collect, verify, or disclose information.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Raises the sharing standard to "reasonable suspicion," allows Customs to share nonpublic marketplace/forwarder data, and lets the Commissioner designate any party with an interest to receive it.
Changes the standard and scope for when and what U.S. Customs can share with private parties. It raises the threshold for sharing from a mere suspicion to "reasonable suspicion," expands the kinds of nonpublic information Customs may provide (including data from online marketplaces, consignment operators, freight forwarders, and similar entities), and lets the Commissioner designate "any other party with an interest in the merchandise" as an eligible recipient. Existing law-enforcement/national-security exceptions and limitations on recording remain in place.
Introduced August 1, 2025 by Charles Ernest Grassley · Last progress August 1, 2025