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Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:00 AM

Port security? They're for it, except when they're against it

Caving to business interests, House Republicans oppose a plan to subject all incoming cargo containers to inspection.
Tim Grieve

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  • Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:16 AM

    Try living in the real world...

    I work for an academic journal that is printed in Hong Kong. Last summer, our journals were shipped in a container that got stopped at customs for scanning, and it delayed distribution by a full month. Unless they truly have some way to scan containers very, very quickly (like the way they had to quickly bring Iraq back to stability), inspecting every single container is going to bring international trade to a complete standstill.

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