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The bill expands CBP's ability to share nonpublic import-related information to help rights-holders and traders resolve disputes and speed legitimate trade, but it also raises significant privacy and competitive risks because disclosures can be broad and depend on Commissioner discretion without detailed safeguards.
Importers, rights-holders, and sellers (including small-business owners and government contractors) can receive more detailed nonpublic information about suspect merchandise, improving their ability to enforce trademarks and resolve disputes faster.
Small-business owners and legitimate traders can get faster resolution of import issues because CBP may share information with other parties who have an interest, facilitating legitimate trade and reducing delays.
Government contractors and other parties subject to CBP disclosure gain greater protection against arbitrary information sharing because the disclosure trigger is raised to a 'reasonable suspicion' standard.
Small-business owners, government contractors, and individuals whose data appears in import records could have sensitive commercial or personal information shared widely because CBP can disclose to 'any other party with an interest.'
Marketplaces, consignment operators, forwarders, and businesses risk exposure of proprietary business data and transaction details when nonpublic information they generate can be shared with third parties, potentially harming competitive positions.
Commissioner discretion to determine who has an 'interest' could produce inconsistent application, legal uncertainty, and privacy or competitive harms without clear safeguards or standards.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Narrows CBP’s disclosure trigger to "reasonable suspicion" while allowing CBP to share marketplace/carrier-generated nonpublic import data with rights-holders and other interested parties.
Introduced August 8, 2025 by Blake D. Moore · Last progress April 28, 2026
Changes how U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can share nonpublic information about imported goods. The bill tightens the sharing standard to require that CBP “has a reasonable suspicion” before releasing certain information, allows CBP to provide nonpublic marketplace- and carrier-generated data to rights-holders or other persons when that data was in CBP’s possession, and broadens who CBP may share information with by letting the Commissioner permit disclosures to “any other party with an interest” in the merchandise.