Customs Inspecting Vietnam Imports
A team from the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is in Vietnam this month to inspect textile and apparel factories exporting goods to the United States. The goal is to prevent quota fraud, as outlined in the U.S.–Vietnam Textile Agreement.
“We have three teams of three people each over there right now,” said Janet Labuda, director of CBP’s textile enforcement division.
The inspectors will be there until Aug. 22.
Recently the Bush administration announced a bilateral trade agreement with Vietnam that limits that country’s shipments of textiles and apparel to the United States. The accord places quotas on 38 categories of textile-related imports and allows U.S. customs inspectors to monitor textile and apparel factories in the Southeast Asian country. —Deborah Belgum
