Vice Minister Sun Yibiao Meets Assistant Secretary of U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Acting Commissioner of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement  
2015-01-05
 
On December 5, Vice Minister Sun Yibiao met with Mr. Allan Bossen, Assistant Secretary of U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Mr. Thomas Winkowski, Acting Commissioner of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Beijing.
The two sides positively evaluated the development of China-U.S. political and economic relations and the cooperation between the two Customs, and reached four consensuses on further cooperation to promote the security and facilitation of supply chains. Firstly, to deepen the ministerial level cooperation mechanism between the General Administration of Customs of China (GACC) and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by strengthening communication and exchanges. Secondly, and to enhance the twomulti -level cooperation, one with between GACC and US DHS and the other between GACC and US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement(ICE). Secondly, continually to continually improve the Container Security Initiative (CSI) cooperation. Thirdly, to promote the joint verification under the Customs and Business Partnership Against Terrorism PlanCustoms-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT), and by acceleratinge the negotiations of Authorized Economic Operation (AEO) mutual recognitionso that enterprises from both countries would enjoy the customs clearance facilitation from the other side. FourthlyThirdly, to reinforce the law-enforcement cooperation in law enforcement by carrying out well focused joint actions on intellectual property rights protection and anti-smuggling actionsoperations in a focused manner.
Vice Minister Sun suggested Fourthly, to furthercontinue the training cooperation and promote the establishment ofing cooperative relationshiptwinning cooperation between Shanghai Customs and Long Beach Customs in Long Beach, U.S..