Thread: DHS Drops Mandatory Screening Of All Incoming Cargo

U.S. no longer mandating 100 percent screening of cargo containers
Published 24 June 2011

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that the United States is no longer going to screen every cargo container before it enters the United States; she said, "We believe the so-called 100 percent requirement is probably not the best way to go"; in 2007 Congress mandated that all containers entering the United States must be scanned at their ports of exit by 2012; the 2007 bill empowers DHS to extend the 2012 deadline if the agency believed that the goal was not achievable and in the past Napolitano has expressed doubts about the feasibility of screening 100 percent of the cargo entering the United States

DHS fails to reach Congressional screening mandate // Source: aircargoworld.com
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that the United States is no longer going to screen every cargo container before it enters the United States.

On a visit to the Netherlands’ Rotterdam port, the fourth largest in the world, Napolitano said, “We believe the so-called 100 percent requirement is probably not the best way to go.â€

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