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Hyper border security * USA / Canada - Could hinder economic recovery
Challenges mounting for shippers as security requirements, some redundant, raises costs
Buffalo,N.Y.,USA -Today's Trucking (CAN) -14 Jan 2010: -- As the U.S. government continues to put security ahead of commerce, getting goods across the U.S.-Canadian border will remain difficult and will probably get more expensive, according to a panel of business experts at a logistics conference in Buffalo, N.Y. this week... As truck capacity starts to tighten again, the trucks that remain, the panelists agreed, will have to be driven, owned and hired by people who pay attention to detail and allow the time and money necessary to comply with all regulations -- however maddening that might be... Another hurdle to cross-border commerce remains the continuing, and often conflicting, efforts of the U. S. and Canadian governments to beef up security... The two sides apparently fail to agree even on what to call their efforts, much less on how they should be carried out, leading some shippers to tear out their hair...* Trade Groups Press For Export Controls Change. Coalition confident in president’s desire for export control reform
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by R.G. Edmonson -Jan 13, 2010: -- Leaders of a coalition for export control reform are confident that recommendations they made to the White House may result in a system that protects national security without impeding exports of U.S. goods... The Coalition for Security and Competitiveness, composed of 17 manufacturing and trade groups, on Jan. 12 presented a list of recommendations to the White House for changes in an export control system that has changed little since it was established in the 1950s... What industry wants are clear lines to tell what goods are controlled by what department and that agencies use a transparent process to determine what should be on the list... The group said that many of their recommendations may be done by the administration without legislation...
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