Border Patrol to bring center to Laredo

LAREDO – The U.S. Customs and Border Protection will be expanding the Centers of Excellence and Expertise, which will create six new centers in 2013, including one in Laredo.

The virtual centers will provide one-stop processing to lower the trade’s cost of business, provide greater consistency and predictability and enhance CBP enforcement efforts.

The centers are for the agriculture and prepared products; apparel, footwear and textiles; base metals; consumer products and mass merchandising; industrial and manufacturing materials and machinery industries.

The center to be established in Laredo will be for machinery industries.