Category: Blog Articles
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Philly Failure to Declare $80 in Luxury Purchases – 19 USC 1497
CBP has publicized a violation of 19 USC 1497, a law which requires all arriving travelers to the United States…
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Detroit CBP Money Seizure Roundup for September
CBP in Detroit has continued to log large money seizures for smuggling, structuring, and failing to report (on form FinCen…
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Texas CBP seized $79K in hidden cash currency at Hidalgo Bridge
A failure to understanding customs regulations can result in the failure to declare cash when traveling into or out of…
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Section 301 tariffs to increase
Today, the USTR published a Notice of Modification of Actions, certain tariffs set to increase on September 27, 2024, with other…
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Dulles CBP Seizes $90K in Cash from 5 people: August 2024
The latest CBP money seizure news publicized comes to us from Dulles airport (again). In the story below, CBP seized…
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Detroit CBP Cash Seizure Summer Round-up
CBP in Detroit has continued to log large cash seizures for smuggling, structuring, and failure to report (on form FinCen…
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Philly CBP Seizes $36K in Cash
In Philadelphia, CBP officers seized $36,000 in cash from a man returning from a trip to Lebanon. The full story…
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New Section 301 (China) Tariff Rates and Exclusions Request for Comments
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) made public a “Request for Comments” after the report on the 4-year review of…
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Section 301 Duties to Increase from 2024 to 2026
UPDATE 9/13/24: Notice of Modification of Actions, certain tariffs set to increase on September 27, 2024, with other increases to…
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CBP Hauls in Big Cash Seizures in Detroit
CBP in April and May continue to log huge cash seizures from arriving and departing traveler’s at the Port of…
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Detroit Cash Seizures at Ambassador Bridge & Detroit Metro Airport in March 2024
CBP officers in Detroit had their own version of March madness, when they seized around $370,000 total in cash from…
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Texas CBP Seizes $124K cash at Eagle Pass
Texas CBP officers seized $124,000 in Eagle Pass, Texas, on March 20, when a Mexican national traveled with $124,052, apparently…
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Texas CBP seizes $85K in unreported and smuggled money; 1 arrested
Another day, another customs money seizure. This one in particular happened to the U.S.-Mexico border in Pharr, Texas, and actually…
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Dulles CBP Seizes $167K in Unreported Cash; Ruins Vacations of 6
The first few weeks of February 2024 saw a lot of cash seizure activity for CBP at Dulles airport, which…
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San Diego CBP Money Seizure of $20,155 (yawn)
CBP in San Diego has quite a few ports, including Calexico, Otay Mesa, Cross Border Xpress, San Ysidro, and Tecate.…
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Dulles CBP Seizes $56k from Iraq-bound Man
Dulles is back in the news again with another cash seizure. In this case, CBP officers aided by a detector…
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Dulles seizes $68k Cash to Nigeria via Cairo
At Dulles airport, CBP officers at Washington Dulles International Airport recently seized $68,000 cash involving a Nigeria-bound family. The family,…
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CBP Laredo seizes $125K in smuggled cash
Last month, CBP officers at the Gateway to the Americas Bridge in Laredo seized $125,306 in cash hidden inside a…
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Minneapolis CBP Seizes $26K Cash Bound for Vietnam
Here’s a Minneapolis CBP cash seizure story from earlier this year that I never had a chance to comment on,…
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Dulles Seizes $130k in Unreported Currency from Travelers
Summer travel season brings a predictable surge in currency seizures at U.S. airports, and CBP at Washington Dulles International Airport…
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CBP seizes $96K in cash at Hidalgo Bridge
The latest CBP press release out of the Texas-Mexico border covers a significant outbound cash seizure at the Hidalgo International…
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CBP Seizes $190K Cash at Pharr, Texas, bridge
If you’re going to Mexico with $198,902 and no plans to report it, you should probably take a toothbrush (so…
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CBP Seizes $126K at Hidalgo Port
CBP at the Hidalgo International Bridge recently seized more than $126,000 in cash from a vehicle heading south into Mexico…
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Gold Worth $67,830 Sezied by Cincinnati CBP
On March 9, CBP officers discovered that someone was shipping gold bars out of the country in a box which…
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Dulles CBP Seizes over $350k Cash in 14 Violations
What is newsworthy about Customs seizing money at Dulles airport? Not much, really, except when it happens so frequently that…