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Over the last ten years there has been a shift in this agency.

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In how we view trade and how we're prioritizing the safety of those products to the American consumer.

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I think a glowing example of that can be seen here at the Commercial Targeting and Analysis Center.

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Products that we use every day that are imported

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are directly tied to the work that we're doing here at CTAC.

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We've allowed eight different agencies to come in and be co-located with us here.

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We've been able to streamline a lot of processes that were very difficult to navigate prior to.

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We're much better positioned today than we were this time last year

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or two years ago or five years ago or ten years ago.

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From the American public's perspective they should have confidence in knowing that

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the products that they buy and use every day are safe.

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I look at products differently now than I ever did.

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There's so much more still to do,

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I hope that ten years from now we're light years beyond where we are today.

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But, it is with a great sense of satisfaction

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that can walk down the toy aisle or the grocery aisle

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and know that these products are safe

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and that they did have to undergo scrutiny from not only CBP

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but the partner agencies here at CTAC.

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