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An unfavorable audit of a federal program through which U.S. officials and their foreign counterparts track financial anomalies in commerce underscores the challenge of disrupting trade-based money laundering, or TBML, sources told ACAMS moneylaundering.com. Trade Transparency Units, which began operating under the Department of Homeland Security in 2005, allow U.S. investigators and foreign customs agencies to share and screen bulk data on global commerce for price discrepancies that may indicate over-invoicing, under-invoicing and other potential signs of attempts to move illicit value through trade. On May 1, the Government Accountability Office found that although TTUs constitute the country's "primary partnership program...