Customs can share more seller data with brand owners.
S. 2677 — A bill to expand the sharing of information with respect to suspected violations of intellectual property rights in trade. · Filed by Chuck Grassley (R-IA) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Aug 1, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill lets U.S. Customs share more facts with companies that own brand names and patents. Customs can now share details about sellers based on a weaker reason to think a problem exists. Customs can also share facts it gets from online sites and shipping companies. Before, this facts was kept secret.
Who it affects
Small sellers, importers, and online sites are affected. Big companies that own brand names and patents can now get facts about other sellers. Shipping companies must give Customs more facts.
One thing to notice
The bill lets Customs share secret facts from online sites and shipping companies with brand owners.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Aug 1, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Aug 1, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Finance · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance”
- Aug 7, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent”
- Aug 7, 2026 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
8 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 11 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $5,910,509 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 11 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 88% of bills with any report.
Chuck Grassley, who sponsored the bill, received $46,167 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Entertainment Software Association — $2,810,000 in 2 reports
- National Association of Manufacturers — $2,030,000 in 1 report
- Ebay Inc. — $580,000 in 1 report
- American Apparel & Footwear Association — $372,780 in 1 report
- International Trademark Association — $70,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- patent — A legal right to be the only one who can make an invention.
- brand names — Names and symbols that a company owns and protects.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,729 characters) on Apr 30, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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