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ICE HSI E-Commerce Strategic Plan
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), through its leadership role at the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), has developed this strategic plan in recognition of the exponential growth of internet and global online marketplaces to conduct many different types of business and consumer transactions over the past decade.
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You can help DHS interdict, investigate and prosecute trade fraud by reporting any instances of fraud – anonymously if you prefer. DHS pays rewards for original information that leads to seizures, arrests, indictments, and convictions. The more detailed and timely the information you provide, the more likely the enforcement action can be successful.
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FBI Intellectual Property (IP) Protection Sheet
Domestic and foreign companies may try to illegally acquire your company's information. Foreign nations that seek to improve their economies and militaries target US technology companies.
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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Intellectual Property (IP) Fact Sheet
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) enforces Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), most visibly by seizing products that infringe IPR such as trade- marks, copyrights, and patents.
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Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement
How businesses can partner with CBP to protect their rights.
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Wildlife Trafficking Fact Sheet
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Commercial Fraud Unit overseas the wildlife trafficking program for the agency.
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Trade Enforcement Coordination Centers Fact Sheet
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) formed the Trade Enforcement Coordination Centers (TECC) to integrate and co-locate commercial fraud enforcement efforts. The TECC was established to disrupt criminal organizations engaged in commercial fraud by enhancing coordination, increasing direct communication, and unifying efforts to identify and combat trade fraud and intellectual property crime. Through the TECC model, CBP and ICE HSI proactively identify, interdict, and investigate inbound cargo that violates U.S. Customs laws and related laws and regulations. The TECCs promote interagency collaboration, information and resource sharing, and efficient communication to enhance the trade enforcement mission of the member agencies.
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The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) is leading the government’s response to intellectual property theft, a crime that leads to lost revenue for American industry, a loss of American jobs, and often poses a threat to public health and safety. Operation Body Armor is an IPR Center initiative targeting the smuggling or illegal importation of unapproved, counterfeit, or adulterated personal healthcare and beauty products entering the United States via international mail facilities, express courier hubs, and land borders.
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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Trade Enforcement Unit manages the textile program. The textile program focuses on investigations of criminal and civil violations of customs laws relating to textiles importations. The violations are executed through a variety of fraudulent schemes and practices including false invoicing, false claims of country of origin, false markings/labeling, misclassification, false description, and smuggling.
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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Trade Enforcement Unit manages the in-bond diversion program for all HSI in-bond investigations. HSI conducts in-bond investigations to prosecute individuals and corporations responsible for the illegal entry of merchandise into the commerce of the United States through the exploitation of the in-bond process. HSI in-bond diversion investigations and programs also target violations related to foreign trade zones and bonded warehouses.
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The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) is leading the government’s response to intellectual property theft, a crime that leads to lost revenue for American industry, a loss of American jobs, and often poses a threat to public health and safety. Operation Apothecary (Apothecary) is an IPR Center initiative targeting the smuggling or illegal importation of unapproved, counterfeit, or adulterated pharmaceuticals entering the United States via international mail facilities (IMFs), express courier hubs (ECHs), and land borders.
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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Commercial Fraud Unit manages the tobacco smuggling program. HSI’s illicit tobacco program coordinates case development, develops leads and assists investigations and interdictions of tobacco smuggling. The program monitors, coordinates, and provides guidance to HSI, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Attorneys’ offices, foreign, state, and local law enforcement agencies on international smuggling matters. The program also provides training and reference material to investigators and HSI works with CBP; Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); Food and Drug Administration (FDA); and Treasury’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), as well as private industry, to address legal and policy issues related to tobacco smuggling.
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The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) is leading the government’s response to intellectual property theft (IP theft), a crime that costs American industries lost revenue and jobs every year. Operation Chain Reaction (OCR) is a comprehensive initiative that targets counterfeit goods entering the supply chains of the Department of Defense (DOD) and other U.S. Government agencies.
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The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), manages Operation Engine Newity, in conjunction with Immigratin and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other law enforcement agencies who collaborate to counter the threat of counterfeit automotive, aerospace, rail, and heavy industry related components that are illegally imported and distributed throughout the United States.
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Operation Pangea was organized to target the advertisement, sale and supply of counterfeit and illicit medicines and medical devices that threaten worldwide public health and safety.
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