On June 27, 2014, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that CBP Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske and the Israel Tax Authority Director General Moshe Asher today signed a mutual recognition arrangement between CBP’s Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program and the Israel’s Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) program. The signing was held at the World Customs Organization conference in Brussels, Belgium. 

In addition to Israel, the United States also has mutual recognition arrangements with New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Korea, Jordan, the European Union and Taiwan.