
The costs to implement a congressional mandate to electronically scan all shipping containers at overseas ports before departing for the U.S. would be between $12 billion and $32 billion over a decade, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says this month in a report that examines the costs and operational impacts of a mandate that so far hasn’t been acted on.These estimates don’t include potential reciprocity laws by foreign governments requiring the U.S. to scan all cargo its exports by maritime…