United States Customs Service

noun

, U.S. Government.

1. the division of the Department of the Treasury that collects customs and enforces laws dealing with smuggling.

Example Sentences

Robert Mazur, who was an anti-money-laundering investigator for the United States Customs Service, reviewed the PwC financial statements at the I.C.I.J.’s request, along with email exchanges between the accountants and Ms. dos Santos’s money managers.

From New York Times

Ice, which now employs over 20,000 people, is one of three agencies that absorbed and assumed the functions of the now defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service and the United States Customs Service.

From The Guardian

During those years, she got to know police officers through her mother’s job, and the experience bolstered Sergeant McKay’s already budding fascination with law enforcement — her grandfather worked for the United States Customs Service, and her great-grandfather was a Detroit police detective.

From New York Times

“If you don’t know what you’re doing, you’re probably not going to be able to hit the broad side of a barn with it,” said Joseph F. King, a former United States Customs Service special agent.

From New York Times

The United States attorney could have taken custody of the painting and put it in storage; the United States customs service could have seized it as stolen property; or the Brogan itself could have renegotiated its contract with the Pinacoteca to continue to display the painting, which is ultimately what occurred.

From New York Times