Import safety bill would revoke brokers' licenses.

Members of the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America have mounted a grassroots effort to eliminate language in an import safety bill that would revoke brokers' licenses for bringing unsafe products into the United States.

The Senate Commerce Committee this month passed a bill to reform the Consumer Product Safety Commission (S. 2045) that included the broker sanction provision.

Jon Kent, NCBFAA legislative counsel, said the original bill, sponsored by Mark Pryor, D-Ark., called for revoking a company's import license. When Pryor's staff found out there was no such thing, they substituted the broker license at the last minute.

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