The U.S. customs laws

U.S. Customs points to two parts, namely, Customs Border Protection (U.S. Customs and Border Protection, CBP) and Immigration Customs Enforcement (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE), respectively responsible for Border Enforcement and case investigation, was established on March 1, 2003.

A, the United States customs border protection (CBP)
The establishment of CBP make for the first time in American history by a unified management of personnel and cargo port of entry into the United States.Of CBP form is designed to integrate the management of the port law enforcement resources and management skills, to improve management effectiveness and efficiency, to achieve the use of the resources of all disposable protective and defensive America from violation of convenience legitimate trade and travel legal targets at the same time.


(a) the primary mission and the main responsibility of the CBP
CBP's primary mission is to prevent terrorists and terrorist weapons into the United States.Therefore, CBP will focus on enhancing the border with the United States and the security of each port, and the geographical border security zone extended to the United States of the United States, so that the United States border from the first line of defense to the last line of defense.CBP's main responsibilities are: to find illegal immigrants and banned drugs and other contraband, protecting agricultural and economic interests from harmful animals and plants and diseases, and damage to protect American business against ipr infringement, norms and facilitate international trade, import duties, enforce the U.S. trade law.

 (2) the strategy of CBP safe and convenient
As a single border management agencies in the United States, CBP to protect the United States and the national important responsibility.CBP to enhance the safety and convenience of legitimate trade and travel strategy is:
- improved risk target identifying system, to promote early access to personnel and the information of the goods arrived in the United States;
Compared with other countries (area) government and establishing partnerships with companies, in order to promote "scale out safety zone";
- use check in advance technology and configuration related equipment;
- increase border security regulation of human;
- in conjunction with other agencies to combat deception trade, intellectual property infringement, money laundering activities, and coordination under the control of the illegal drug delivery.

 Second, the U.S. immigration customs enforcement (ICE)ICE has about 30000 employees, is one of the largest investigative agency in the federal government.The agency is the main investigative agency, the department of homeland security has endowed with many responsibilities: truncation, money laundering and terrorist financing to crack down on illegal arms trade, immigration fraud and human trafficking, detention and expel foreign criminals and other American think foreigners should be expelled.In addition, it also supervise the implementation of the immigration and customs laws in China, for about 9000 federal facilities protection.

 Three, "9.11" after the us customs counter-terrorism security operationsThe Shield plan (Project shields America) : us customs fighting international fears?Mission, there are two aspects: one is to protect the American public, to prevent weapons of mass destruction and other terror apparatus to enter the United States;Another is to prevent the 

terrorists and committed crimes of international organizations from outside the United States and U.S. technology and material with which to build weapons of mass destruction, and weapons, funding and other support.On December 4, 2001, the United States customs shield plans to launch the United States, to the related enterprise cooperation with the United States, to stop the column name weapons and sensitive technology export dual-use strategy, prevent its technology products by terrorists and funding terrorist countries use and access.