U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s 2026 guidance signals that forced labor enforcement is now a real-time compliance risk, and companies can’t skimp on building end-to-end visibility.

President Trump signed an executive order expanding customs enforcement and digital surveillance tools to crack down on import fraud, tariff evasion, and illegal goods entering the U.S.

A reckoning is coming as decades of customs corner-cutting face unprecedented scrutiny and crushing consequences.