A congressional mandate that all cargo containers bound for the United States be electronically scanned for threats raises a host of challenges for the U.S. and foreign governments, according to a Government Accountability Official (GAO). Those challenges range from having enough staff within U.S. Customs and Border Protection to review the X-Ray images of containers scanned overseas to whether foreign governments begin to require the U.S. to scan containers bound for their ports, Stephen Caldwell, director of Homeland Security and…
GAO, WCO Outline Challenges To Scanning All U.S. Bound Cargo Containers
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