This position would improve trade law enforcement and facilitate legitimate trade. My bill will make narrowly tailored updates to CBP respond to ever evolving trade challenges by better utilizing existing personnel with CBP. Both the House and Senate already passed bills that would grant CBP the authority to create a global trade specialist position, but neither bill has yet been enacted into law. The ways and means committee has repeatedly heard hearing testimony about how a global trade specialist positioned with the CBP will better serve the needs of american workers and safeguard supply chains. (01:11–01:26)
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Asserts that both legislative chambers have passed bills for the global trade specialist position, but it has not become law.
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