Category: Blog Articles
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Philly CBP Seizes $50K from Traveler Arriving from Germany
U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized $50,000 cash at a Philadelphia airport from a traveler arriving from Frankfurt, Germany. No criminal charges…
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Don’t Talk About Your Customs Currency Seizure Case
When Customs or Homeland Security wants to discuss your Customs currency seizure case with you after filing a petition, by telephone…
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Dangerous Baby Clothing Seized by CBP
When importing into the United States an importer must make sure to comply with the customs laws for classification, valuation,…
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CBP Fines Agricultural Products Smugglers $98,000
When you heard that someone is a smuggler, or that they’ve smuggled something you typically think of smuggling drugs or…
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CBP Seizes $38 Million so far in FY 2015; $15k from Nigerian Traveler
In the story below, CBP officers in Houston seized more than $15,000 from a Nigerian traveler at the George Bush…
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CBP Seizes Counterfeits from Traveler from Vietnam
U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized a large amount of counterfeit clothing from a traveler that was arriving from Vietnam.…
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Chinese Honey Seized in Houston for Antidumping Duty Evasion
We previously wrote about the dangers of not knowing your supply chain, conducting due diligence, and how inadvertently buying goods…
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CBP Seizes $1.2B in counterfeits in FY 2014
In addition to currency seizures and drug seizures, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seizes counterfeit merchandise imported into the United…
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CBP JFK Seizes $700k in Counterfeit Monetary Instruments
Just the other day we blogged about a counterfeit currency seizure at an express cargo facility at JFK Airport. Today, there…
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CBP Seizes Counterfeit Money in Ecuadoran Import
This story does not involve a customs currency seizure because counterfeit bills are not considered a monetary instrument under the…
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CBP Seizes $430k of Counterfeit/Smuggled Perfume in Champlain
Here is an interesting counterfeit seizure story out of Champlain, New York, from CBP. The officers there intercepted a truckload of…
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US CBP Seizes $10.6M Cash in Caribbean in FY 2014
Last year, U.S. Customs & Border Protection — CBP — in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands seized $10.6…
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U.S. Customs Seizes $17k Cash at Dulles Airport
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized more than $17,000 from a woman returned to the United States from the…
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U.S. Customs Seizes $28k Outbound to Mexico
A relatively small amount of currency was seized from a Mexican couple leaving the United States last week at the…
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Customs Seeks to Enforce § 1592 Penalties for Misclassification at CIT
The industry website RubberNews.com has a story about a tire distributor called China Tire out of California who is facing a…
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Picasso Seized by Customs, Forfeiture Pending
U.S. Customs & Border Protection recently encountered and seized a stolen Picasso painting worth millions of dollars at a New…
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CBP Seizes $200K+ in Unreported Currency
U.S. Customs seized more than $220,000 in unreported U.S. currency from two U.S. citizen pedestrians who attempted to walk into…
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Filing a Petition for Seized Currency (with Sample and Tips) with CBP
If you are attempting to get your seized currency back from Customs by filing a petition for remission there are…
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Crossing the Border by Dog Sled
Customs news of the interesting from newsminer.com. What happens if you’re on a 1,000 mile dog sled race, you are…
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CBP Currency Seizure for Preclearance is Nassau
The on-going trickle of news releases from Customs regarding the annual totals of currency seizures continues. Here is a report,…
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Customs Confiscates $39k at Port of Douglas in Arizona
The Douglas Dispatch out of Arizona reports on some arrest/seizure activity by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The relevant portion is:…
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Port of Buffalo Customs Currency Seizures by the Numbers (FY 2014)
The Port of Buffalo released its enforcement statistics for fiscal year 2014, offering a useful point of comparison against other…
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Seizure of $325,000 Smuggled leaving Puerto Rico
As picked up by the Associated Press, Customs seized over $325,000 in cash after finding it hidden inside a TV…
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Cross Border Customs Cash Seizure Nets $39k
U.S. Customs and Border Protection released some news about recent enforcement actions, including a seizure of about 39,000 from a Mexican man entering…
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Dulles Airport Money Seizure by Customs of $43,015
A Dulles airport money seizure by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) resulted in a seizure of $43,000 from a U.S.…