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Trade Transparency Unit Strategy Act
To require a strategy for the expanded use of Trade Transparency Units.
Summary
This bill requires the Department of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Departments of State, Commerce, and Treasury, to develop and submit a strategy within 180 days for expanding the use of Trade Transparency Units in combating international money laundering. The strategy must address how to increase information sharing between U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Homeland Security Investigations, the Commerce Department, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and foreign customs agencies through these units. The bill also requires improving information sharing practices within and between U.S. agencies regarding Trade Transparency Units. The strategy must be submitted in unclassified form, though it may include a classified annex. Within 180 days of the strategy's submission, the Government Accountability Office must assess the strategy and report its findings to Congress.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Sheehy, Tim [R-MT] (R-MT)
Actions (2)
- Jan 8, 2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. · senate
- Jan 8, 2026 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 8 (legislative day, January 7), 2026
Mr. Sheehy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance
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 by 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 Finance, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. <all>
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