Findings and purpose

(a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Nonprofit organizations, such as Operation Troop Support in Danvers, Massachusetts, have shipped millions of care packages to members of the United States Armed Forces deployed overseas, containing comfort items, personal supplies, and messages of encouragement. (2) Recent Customs and postal reporting requirements—such as the need to list six-digit Harmonized System codes and item-by-item country-of-origin data—were designed for commercial trade, not humanitarian parcels, and have unintentionally restricted the ability of volunteer organizations to send morale-support shipments abroad. (3) These burdens have led to delays, returned packages, and significant cost increases for nonprofits relying on donations and volunteers. (4) Congress therefore intends to exempt qualified nonprofit troop-support organizations from unnecessary tariff and reporting requirements and to direct relevant agencies to simplify their documentation standards. (b) Purpose The purpose of this Act is to remove unnecessary Customs barriers that hinder the ability of nonprofit organizations to send humanitarian care packages to members of the United States Armed Forces serving overseas.