These include clearing shipments and people before they get to crossing-points.Canadians are already worried at signs of rising protectionism in their neighbour's Democrat-led Congress, in the form of Buy American provisions in the economic-stimulus package and proposals in a new environmental bill to impose trade sanctions on countries with high levels of greenhouse-gas emissions.
It recently opened a new clearing house at the Toluca Airport outside Mexico City that enables local customs agents to clear shipments worth less than $200 on the day they arrive.
With that step, they also allowed US customs officers to work in Canada to pre-clear shipments going south.
Italy argued for a system of certificates clearing every shipment of food products within the European Community, but other countries feared the system would be too cumbersome.
In fact, the South African government on Friday was actively helping Zimbabwe to clear the shipment through customs.
The truck would then be able to travel through a dedicated lane, and customs agents would identify and clear the shipment with a radio device.
The company, SBS Worldwide Ltd. (not SDS Worldwide, as the article had it, and corrected in this space on July 21), says it cleared a shipment of the books through customs but had nothing to do with their further distribution in the United States.
For about the last year, Mexican cattle have been examined here before being cleared for shipment to the rest of Texas and beyond — part of an effort to eradicate a fever tick infestation that has plagued ranchers along the border for more than a century.
The president's son, an army officer, has admitted clearing cocaine shipments that arrived in planes marked with the symbol of the Red Cross.
It's not clear if that shipment was also from Ecuador, but it resulted in the arrest of two Spanish men and one Italian thought to have ties with a criminal organization.
It's not clear if that shipment was also from Ecuador, but it resulted in the arrest of two Spanish men and one Italian thought to have ties with a criminal organization. .
