Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up, VITAL BRIEFING—U.S. to build AI tariff surveillance tools, (Sep 8, 2026)
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has proposed new rules it asserts will allow the agency to more effectively detect and interdict illicit importations, especially those that are illegally transshipped to evade compliance with U.S. customs and trade laws.
In this edition of Tariff Insights, Thomas Thompson delves into recent Trump administration actions that will allow the government to step up its custom enforcement activities, as well as to combat perceived abuses involving transshipment activities by which highly tariffed Chinese products are purportedly being routed to low-tariffed third countries and then exported to the U.S.
Some of the developments Thompson explores in his piece include:
Recent Department of Justice enforcement activities that yielded a record $1 billion in civil and criminal recoveries, as well as the recent establishment of a joint DOJ-DHS Trade Fraud Task Force that aims to pursue rigorous criminal prosecution and civil enforcement under the False Claims Act.
The publication of a White House report titled, The Great Transshipment Scam, an effort led by administration economic advisor Peter Navarro, which accuses more than 60 countries of being associated with elevated illegal transshipment activities.
Calls for the CBP to expand its use of AI tools and machine learning while establishing a system capable of ingesting and analyzing global trade data with lightning speed to identify anomalous routing patterns, validate production capacity and direct enforcement resources toward the highest-probability offenders.
To read the piece, click on U.S. to build AI tariff surveillance tools.
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