Mr Clare said the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Washington on Friday (Saturday AEST).
AFP Commissioner Tony Negus and Mr Clare met FBI deputy director Sean Joyce at the agency's headquarters in the US capital.
Mr Negus and Mr Joyce signed the MoU called Combatting Transnational Crime, Combatting Terrorism and Developing Law Enforcement Cooperation.
Mr Clare said the key to fighting crime was criminal intelligence and the sharing of that intelligence.
"That requires Australian law enforcement agencies to work closely together," Mr Clare said in a statement on Saturday.
"It also requires us to work closely with overseas law enforcement agencies - and the FBI is one of the best there is."
The MoU focussed on collaboration between agencies in terrorism, illicit drugs, money laundering, illegal firearms trafficking, identity crime, cyber crime and transnational economic crime.
It also consolidated AFP and FBI cooperation in the exchange of information, resources and technical and forensic capabilities.
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