{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://blakemoore.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-blake-moores-bipartisan-legislation-to-halt-counterfeit-imports-passes-committee", "Congressman Blake Moore's Bipartisan Legislation to Halt Counterfeit Imports Passes Committee", "2025-12-10", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "House", "UT", "Blake D. Moore", "M001213", "blakemoore.house.gov", "blakemoore", "https://blakemoore.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 Representatives Blake Moore (R-UT) and Brad Schneider (D-IL) introduced legislation to halt counterfeit and pirated imports into the United States. The bill changes how Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can share the packing and shipping information of suspected counterfeit products with key intellectual property rights holders, transportation carriers, and e-commerce platforms. This bill passed the Ways and Means Committee by a bipartisan vote of 40-0.\n\n\u201cThe global economy is flush with threats from counterfeiters, IP thieves, and black-market traders,\" Rep. Moore said. \"This bill will unlock real-time intelligence sharing between CBP and the private sector that will help shut down these networks and cut off the flow of counterfeit products before they reach American shores. This will safeguard American businesses and protect our citizens from dangerous counterfeit goods. I\u2019m thrilled that this bill has generated strong bipartisan support and unanimously passed through the Ways and Means Committee today.\"\n\n\u201cThe United States has well-established and enforceable property rights that have allowed innovation and entrepreneurship to flourish in our country,\u201d said Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08). \u201cUnfortunately, there are bad actors that will try to exploit any loophole in our laws \u2013 including gaps in our trade enforcement \u2013 to steal American intellectual property. Thanks to Representative Moore\u2019s leadership, the Ways and Means Committee is advancing solutions that will improve coordination between law enforcement and the private sector to help stem the tide of IP theft being perpetrated across our nation\u2019s borders.\u201d\n\n\u201cCounterfeit goods undercut American businesses, threaten jobs, and endanger public safety. I\u2019m proud to join my colleague on the Ways and Means Committee Rep. Blake Moore and Sens. Chuck Grassley and Maggie Hassan in introducing this legislation that enhances CBP\u2019s ability to disrupt counterfeit trafficking networks and better safeguards our economy and communities,\u201d Rep. Schneider said.\n\n\u201cStopping counterfeits at the border demands a coordinated and collaborative approach,\u201d said Travis Johnson, Vice President of the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition. \u201cThis commonsense legislation enhances CBP\u2019s ability to leverage private sector expertise and intelligence, and we applaud the sponsors for their efforts to protect consumers and legitimate businesses from the harms caused by those illicit imports.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe are thankful for Chairman Grassley\u2019s efforts to call for more information sharing for rights holders to quickly and effectively identify counterfeit and illicit products. Counterfeit goods do not just represent economic losses, lost sales, and lost jobs through brand identity theft; the digital devalue chain of counterfeits exposes consumers and workers to a multitude of dangers that pose real product safety hazards for consumers, workers, and the environment,\u201d said Steve Lamar, President and CEO of the American Apparel & Footwear Association.\n\nBackground:\n\nWhile CBP\u2019s job is to identify counterfeit products at U.S. ports of entry and flag for businesses when they suspect a particular shipment might be counterfeit or pirated, they are currently only allowed to provide limited information about shipments in question. CBP is not permitted to share packing materials (such as the external container in which goods are shipped), images, labels, invoices, or packing slips that identify the product\u2019s country of origin with key parties such as property rights holders, carriers like DHL, UPS, or FedEx, and e-commerce platforms like Etsy and Amazon.\n\nThis bill would provide explicit authority for CBP to share all relevant information with companies, carriers, and platforms when a shipment in question contains suspected counterfeit or pirated products. The bill also broadens the range of parties with whom CBP can disclose such information, including shipping companies and e-commerce sites where the product in question may be sold.\n\nUnder this bill, CBP would be allowed to share:\n\nShipping labels and tracking numbers\n\nSender and recipient addresses\n\nInvoices and manifests\n\nOuter packaging images, like courier tape, weight notations, and box markings\n\nContainer-level packaging information and data\n\nThis means CBP could flag patterns of behaviors such as:\n\nRepeat senders across multiple shipments\n\n\u201cDrop addresses\u201d used by organized counterfeiters\n\nCommon entry ports or air routes\n\nExample: A counterfeit electronics shipment from Shenzhen repeatedly enters via the Port of Los Angeles using the same fake return address and tracking patterns. With this bill, CBP can share these patterns with carriers like UPS, DHL, and FedEx to intercept future parcels earlier in the pipeline.\n\nThe Moore-Schneider bill is supported by the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies, American Apparel & Footwear Association, Automotive Anti-Counterfeiting Council, Baby Safety Alliance, International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition, International Trademark Association, Partnership for Safe Medicines, Pharmaceutical Security Institute, and Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade.\n\nYou can read the full bill here and on Congress.gov.\n\n###", 1, "2026-04-04T05:28:40Z", "2026-04-04T05:30:10Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://blakemoore.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-blake-moores-bipartisan-legislation-to-halt-counterfeit-imports-passes-committee"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7019931692630053, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}