U.S. importers have bought themselves another two years before they must implement a container-scanning rule that they believe should be scrapped altogether.
Mandated by the SAFE Port Act of 2006, the Department of Homeland Security issued a requirement that 100 percent of U.S.-bound ocean containers be scanned at the foreign port of origin. Since then, Congress and DHS have been kicking the can down the road, repeatedly delaying implementation of a rule that industry says is unworkable. The latest move puts off action until 2016.
This has been excerpted from a 29 July 2014 article in Forbes and is available in its entirety at:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbowman/2014/07/29/delay-container-scanning-rule-two-years-not-good-enough-importers-say/