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Over the last ten years there has been a shift in this agency.
In how we view trade and how we're prioritizing the safety of those products to the American consumer.
I think a glowing example of that can be seen here at the Commercial Targeting and Analysis Center.
Products that we use every day that are imported
are directly tied to the work that we're doing here at CTAC.
We've allowed eight different agencies to come in and be co-located with us here.
We've been able to streamline a lot of processes that were very difficult to navigate prior to.
We're much better positioned today than we were this time last year
or two years ago or five years ago or ten years ago.
From the American public's perspective they should have confidence in knowing that
the products that they buy and use every day are safe.
I look at products differently now than I ever did.
There's so much more still to do,
I hope that ten years from now we're light years beyond where we are today.
But, it is with a great sense of satisfaction
that can walk down the toy aisle or the grocery aisle
and know that these products are safe
and that they did have to undergo scrutiny from not only CBP
but the partner agencies here at CTAC.
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