Executive Assistant Commissioner Brenda B. Smith

Brenda Smith serves as the Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of International Trade, at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Selected in the fall of 2014, Ms. Smith is responsible for the compliance of millions of cargo shipments that flow in and out of the U.S. each year. As Assistant Commissioner, Ms. Smith oversees a diverse portfolio of trade facilitation and enforcement matters. This work ranges from the direction of Priority Trade Issues such as Intellectual Property Rights and Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty enforcement, to the oversight of national compliance audits, and the management of trade data—along with CBP’s regulatory process for administering trade and border operations.