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The bill improves IP enforcement by allowing CBP to share marketplace-originated nonpublic data (with some procedural limits and notification) but risks broader disclosure of sensitive commercial information and expanded recipient access that could harm privacy and dampen cooperation from marketplace partners.
Small businesses and IP rights holders: CBP can share images and other marketplace-originated nonpublic data to help identify and stop counterfeit imports, improving enforcement and loss recovery.
Individuals and parties whose data might be disclosed: CBP must have 'reasonable suspicion' before sharing nonpublic marketplace or supply-chain information, reducing arbitrary or baseless disclosures.
Recipients of CBP disclosures (including businesses and financial institutions): CBP must notify recipients about the nonpublic information transmitted, increasing transparency about data sources and content.
Tech workers, small businesses, and financial institutions: CBP may disclose broader categories of nonpublic marketplace and supply-chain data, risking privacy breaches or exposure of sensitive commercial information.
Small businesses and other stakeholders: Expanding recipients to 'any other party with an interest' lets the Commissioner share data beyond IP owners, increasing the risk of improper or overly broad disclosures.
Marketplaces, logistics firms, and the businesses that rely on them: Broader data-sharing could chill cooperation from marketplaces and logistics companies worried about confidentiality, complicating supply-chain relationships and enforcement partnerships.
Based on analysis of 1 section of legislative text.
Raises CBP's disclosure trigger to "reasonable suspicion," allows sharing of marketplace-originated nonpublic data and images, requires notice, and widens eligible recipients to other interested parties.
Official title: To expand the sharing of information with respect to suspected violations of intellectual property rights in trade.
Introduced August 8, 2025 by Blake D. Moore · Last progress April 28, 2026
Changes how Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can share information about imported merchandise: it raises the legal threshold for disclosure to "reasonable suspicion," allows CBP to share certain nonpublic data obtained from online marketplaces and other supply-chain actors with entitled or interested parties, and requires CBP to notify recipients about marketplace-originated nonpublic information according to regulations. It also expands who may receive information beyond trademark/copyright owners to include other parties with an interest in the merchandise as determined by the Commissioner.