Veteran CBP executive Bradd Skinner assumes Assistant Director, Trade Operations post at Laredo Field Office
Written by admin, Aug 21, 2015, Comments Off
Courtesy Richard Pauza,
LAREDO, Texas –U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced this week that 29-year veteran CBP/DHS executive Bradd Skinner has become the new permanent Assistant Director, Field Operations for Trade Operations at Laredo Field Office.
“I look forward to reconnecting with fellow federal partners and trade stakeholders in South Texas with whom I had interacted in my previous roles as Director of C-TPAT and Deputy Attaché, Mexico City,” Skinner said. As trade continues to grow in the region, our relationships with municipal governments and trade stakeholder groups to provide additional service and infrastructure via Section 559 and 560 partnerships are critical to keep trade flows moving while upholding our trade security mission,” Skinner said.
As Assistant Director of Field Operations, Trade Operations for Laredo Field Office, Skinner will oversee trade operations, including processing of commercial trucks, railcars, air carriers as well as entry specialist, import specialist operations at eight ports of entry extending from Brownsville to Del Rio, Texas. This also includes oversight of the Machinery Center of Excellence and Expertise in Laredo. The Laredo Field Office processes the largest amount of land-based commercial truck traffic in the United States with $162 billion in merchandise entering in FY2014 through the 23 crossings, six airports and one seaport which comprise the eight ports of entry.
In addition, in FY2014, CBP officers seized 110,253 pounds of narcotics valued at $437 million while processing 2.9 million commercial trucks, 55 million passengers and pedestrians and 75,983 buses within the Laredo Field Office.
Previously, Mr. Skinner worked for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Policy as the DHS Attaché to Canada. In this position he served as the representative of the Secretary of Homeland Security in Canada, provided support and advice to the U.S. Ambassador to Canada on issues falling within the DHS mission, and worked with Canadian counterparts on DHS policy initiatives, such as the Beyond the Border Perimeter Security Action Plan.
