AnnMarie Highsmith CBP-Office of TradeExecutive Assistant Commissioner

AnnMarie R. Highsmith is the Executive Assistant Commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Trade, where she leads more than 1,000 employees and the enforcement of over 500 U.S. trade laws and 15 free trade agreements to enhance U.S. economic prosperity. In collaboration with 49 partner government agencies, she oversees the facilitation of over $3 trillion in legitimate trade each year as well as seven priority trade issues, while protecting the American economy and American consumers from unsafe and unfair trade practices including intellectual property rights violations, forced labor, duty evasion, misclassification, environmental trade crimes, and trade-based money laundering through risk-based, data driven enforcement. EAC Highsmith leads the Office of Trade at a time when the value and volume of trade in the United States is at a record high. Under her leadership, CBP has successfully implemented the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act and launched the Green Trade Strategy setting global standards for more humane and sustainable global supply chains. She is a champion of efforts to increase resiliency, diversity, and inclusion in the Office of Trade workforce.