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Trade Transparency Unit Strategy Act

To require a strategy for the expanded use of Trade Transparency Units.

Introduced Jan 8, 2026

Latest action (Jan 8, 2026) Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Referred to
Ways and Means Committee
Policy area
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Issues
Foreign Policy

Summary
  • Expresses Congress's sense that Trade Transparency Units are critical tools to identify, disrupt, and dismantle international money laundering networks.
  • Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and submit a strategy within 180 days to expand information sharing through Trade Transparency Units between U.S. and foreign customs agencies.
  • Requires the strategy to improve information sharing between U.S. agencies and with foreign counterparts regarding Trade Transparency Units.
  • Specifies that the strategy must be submitted in unclassified form and may include a classified annex.
  • Requires the Comptroller General to assess the strategy and submit a report to Congress within 180 days of its submission.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)

Actions (2)
  1. Jan 8, 2026 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. · house
  2. Jan 8, 2026 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 3608 — Trade Transparency Unit Strategy Act · Introduced Jan 8, 2026 · Cong. 119 94%
  • S 4563 — Section 232 Public Transparency Act · Introduced May 19, 2026 · Cong. 119 72%
  • S 959 — Tariff Transparency Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 11, 2025 · Cong. 119 68%
  • S 2480 — Telecom Cybersecurity Transparency Act · Passed Senate Jul 29, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%
  • HR 8689 — Strategic Export Controls and Border Security Enhancement Act · Introduced May 7, 2026 · Cong. 119 64%
  • S 744 — Maintaining American Superiority by Improving Export Control Transparency Act · Introduced Feb 26, 2025 · Cong. 119 63%

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 8, 2026

Mr. Pfluger introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

A BILL

To require a strategy for the expanded use of Trade Transparency Units.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Trade Transparency Unit Strategy Act”.

SEC. 2. STRATEGY FOR THE EXPANSION OF TRADE TRANSPARENCY UNITS.

(a) Sense of Congress.—It is the sense of Congress that Trade Transparency Units are a critical bilateral and multilateral tool to identify, disrupt, and dismantle international money laundering networks.

(b) Strategy.—

(1) In general.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of the Treasury, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a strategy to—

(A) expand information sharing between U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Homeland Security Investigations, appropriate elements of the Department of Commerce, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the Department of the Treasury, and appropriate counterparts of foreign customs agencies through Trade Transparency Units; and

(B) improve intra-agency, inter-agency, and other multilateral information sharing with respect to Trade Transparency Units.

(2) Form.—The strategy required by paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form and may contain a classified annex.

(c) Comptroller General Assessment.—Not later than 180 days after the submission of the strategy required by subsection (b), the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that includes an assessment of the strategy required in subsection (b).

(d) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.—In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means—

(1) the Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives; and

(2) the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Finance of the Senate. <all>

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