H.R. 6988

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6988 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6988

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

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 8, 2026

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

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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.
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