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Fact Sheet: Cargo Container Security - U.S. Customs and Border Protection Reality
White Paper This fact-sheet provides information on Cargo Container Security reaching the shores of US. It concludes by stating that, CBP uses intelligence to review information on 100% of all cargo information entering U.S.ports, and all cargo that presents a... [03 Jul 2008]
Cargo Security Overview: Technologies, Government and Customs Initiatives
White Paper The need for cargo security is critical to assist the transportation industry in combating the serious increases in cargo crime and the increasing threat of cargo terrorism. Cargo security is not an isolated event; security has to be applied across... [06 Nov 2004]
Department of Homeland Security: Customs and Border Protection
White Paper This document informs truck carriers when they will be required to transmit advance electronic cargo information to Customs and Border Protection regarding cargo they are bringing into the United States, as mandated by section 343(a) of the Trade... [28 Dec 2004]
Cargo Security on Agency Hit Lists
White Paper This article describes about custom and cargo security in U.S. Customs officials have also worked out deals with major shippers who will provide their own security systems and guarantee them in exchange for swift passage across the borders. [03 Jul 2008]
Homeland Security: Challenges Facing the Department of Homeland Security in Balancing Its Border Security and Trade Facilitation Missions
White Paper The testimony also highlights the work related to cargo inspections and individual inspections at land ports of entry. Addressing this challenge falls principally to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Bureau of Customs and Border... [22 Dec 2004]
Global Milestone Reached With 32 Operational CSI Ports
White Paper Under CSI, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has entered into bi-lateral partnerships with other governments to identify high-risk cargo containers and to pre-screen them before they are loaded on vessels destined for the United States. [03 Jul 2008]
Ripples From 9/11: The US Container Security Initiative and Its Implications for Australia
White Paper The Container Security Initiative (CSI) was devised by US Customs in response to fears arising out of the 11 September 2001 attacks that sea cargo containers bound for the US could be used to facilitate a terrorist attack by providing direct... [27 Jan 2005]
Border Security: Inspections Practices, Policies, and Issues
White Paper The United States has a unified inspections operation at the borders; a single inspector is charged with examining people, animals, plants, goods, and cargo upon entry to the country. The decision by DHS officials to further integrate the... [22 Dec 2004]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Protecting Our Southern Border Against the Terrorist Threat
White Paper CBP's protective measures include intensified activities in the areas of passenger processing, cargo targeting and inspection, non-intrusive technology inspections, as well as a number of initiatives to increase security along the U.S. [08 Feb 2005]
Homeland Security: Summary of Challenges Faced in Targeting Ocean Going Cargo Containers for Inspection
White Paper Addressing the potential weapons smuggling threat posed by the movement of oceangoing cargo containers falls to the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Since CBP cannot inspect all arriving cargo containers, it uses a targeting strategy... [22 Dec 2004]
International Trade and U.S. Homeland Security
White Paper Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") published its final rule requiring advance electronic presentation of cargo manifest information for all modes of transportation for both inbound and outbound cargo. [03 Jul 2008]
Homeland Security: Summary of Challenges Faced in Targeting Oceangoing Cargo Containers for Inspection
White Paper Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has taken steps to address the terrorism risks posed by oceangoing cargo containers, its targeting strategy neither incorporates all key elements of a risk management framework nor is consistent with certain... [05 Jan 2005]
The 2% Myth: Automated System, Technology, People Screen Cargo for Contraband
White Paper The CBP goal is not to search two percent, 10 percent, or even 50 percent of the cargo at our nation's borders and ports of entry. Customs and Border Protection thoroughly screens and examines 100% of the shipments that pose a risk to the country... [03 Jul 2008]
Homeland Security: Preliminary Observations on Efforts to Target Security Inspections of Cargo Containers
White Paper Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) development of its targeting strategy is consistent with recognized risk management and computer modeling practices and how well the targeting strategy has been implemented at selected seaports around the... [22 Dec 2004]
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