2023 Trade Facilitation and Cargo Security (TFCS) Summit is taking place in person and virtually. Aside from the benefits of seeing wonderful people from many levels of CBP, it is also an opportunity to learn the thinking methodology of agency’s actors, including the literature and authority. In the world of seizures, on such authority is Seized Asset Management and Enforcement Procedures Handbook or SAMEPH. One of the CBP presenters in the summit referred to SAMEPH as the “bible” of the Fines Penalties & Forfeitures Office. Google and FOIA searches revealed one release of 2002 version posted by “governmentattic.”
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