U.S. Customs and Border Protection is issuing monthly updates of various trade statistics. Highlights for May 2025 (compared to April) include the following.
- processed more than 2.8 million entry summaries (down 6.7 percent) valued at more than $276 billion (down 2.8 percent)
- stopped 132 shipments (down 5.7 percent) valued at more than $4.5 million (up 23.3 percent) for further examination based on the suspected use of forced labor
- seized 2,973 shipments (up 13.8 percent) that contained counterfeit goods valued at more than $317 million (down 36.9 percent)
- completed 67 audits (up 103 percent) that identified $139 million (up 18.8 percent) in duties and fees owed to the U.S. government stemming from improperly declared imports
- collected over $29 million (up 61.1 percent) of this identified revenue and from previous fiscal years’ assignments
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