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House Approves Homeland Security Bills

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, July 6th, 2012

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The House last week approved several homeland security bills including a bill aimed at streamlining global supply chain security by allowing the Department of Homeland Security to recognize other countries’ trusted shipper programs and port security threat assessments. The SMART Port Security Act (H.R. 4251) allows for DHS to agree with foreign governments to mutually recognize their respective supply chain security practices as long as a foreign government’s supply chain security program provides comparable security to the Customs Trade Partnership…

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