We will rely on intelligence and targeting. In regard to trying to intercept a shipment of illegal drugs, there are a lot of similarities between that and a shipment of counterfeit goods. We will rely on indicators, try to leverage that information, which we do day in, day out on many hundreds of thousands of shipments that we clear at land borders every year....
This bill gives us the power to detain those goods, and to contact trademark and copyright owners, so that they can take their case to the courts.
We already have a system in place that makes it possible to target and intercept those shipments. You are entirely correct. If we X-ray a shipment of shirts, we cannot necessarily see whether the shirts are genuine or counterfeit, but we can target and intercept those shipments by using all the indicators.