# COBRA Customs Fees

**Agency:** Homeland Security  
**Account:** COBRA Customs Fees  
**Source document:** Customs and Border Protection · p. 9  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/homeland-security/cobra-customs-fees  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 932.9 |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | 1,001.1 |
| FY2027 | request | 1,102.6 |

The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.


## Homeland Security discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $91.40B, FY2026 $88.60B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Revenue from fees established by the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA), Pub. Law 99-272, helps U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recover costs incurred in the performance of customs inspections to facilitate legitimate trade and travel through U.S. ports of entry (POE), while keeping the United States secure. Collections from the COBRA user fees are made available through a permanent/indefinite appropriation, created by the user fee statute. Fee Uses: COBRA user fee collections fund customs inspectional activities that are mandated by law. Supported by fee revenues, CBP Officers help ensure that all carriers, passengers, and their personal effects entering the United States are compliant with U.S. customs laws. The COBRA and Express Consignment Carrier Facility (ECCF) user fees support the inspectional functions performed by CBP at POEs. To the extent that revenues are available, the estimated fiscal year (FY) 2026 and FY 2027 collections will fund the activities enumerated in the COBRA statute.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Homeland Security › Customs and Border Protection › COBRA Customs Fees


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*