CONTROLS * USA - Truckers Crossing Border Must Send Data
Truckers crossing the Mexico-U.S. border into California, New Mexico and Texas will be required to send electronically information about their cargo to customs officials effective Thursday
Washington,DC,USA -Houston Chronicle (Houston,TX) -18 April 2007: -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection, part of the Department of Homeland Security, said Wednesday truckers will be required to submit cargo information through the agency's electronic truck manifest system... Those electronic manifests were already required, effective in January, for Arizona, six Canadian border crossings in North Dakota and all of Washington state, according to the customs agency... The electronic records are designed to give customs officers the ability to perform early screening on trucks and provide more time to inspect suspicious cargo...
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