In fiscal year 2013 the Department of Homeland Security and its agencies – US Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations – seized more than $1.7 billion worth of counterfeit and pirated goods at and within US borders. In the same year enforcement agencies effected more than 24,000 seizures of cargo, mail and express delivery shipments, made nearly 700 arrests, filed more than 400 indictments and secured over 450 convictions for IP crimes.