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Homeland Security

Briefing

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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

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*Customs and Border Protection and Singapore have agreed not to move ahead with a pilot program of the Secure Freight Initiative (SFI) in Singapore. CBP says that based on results of ongoing SFI trials in other ports, it has "decided to focus on high-risk trade corridors in order to maximize the security benefit realized given the limited resources available to all governmental and private sector operators in the international supply chain as the most effective strategy to initiate 100% scanning."…

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