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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Congress taking steps to limit US-DOT pilot program

Published by BTA Staff.
March 26, 2007 – 5:05 am in Advocacy, Infrastructure, Legislation, Border Tech 1 Comment

Last week, Senate Appropriators approved an amendment that would impose restrictions on DOT’s proposed pilot program for Mexican trucks. Senators Murray (D-WA) and Feinstein (D-CA) succeeded in passing an amendment during the Appropriations Committee markup of the supplemental Iraq war funding bill (S. 965) to require a public comment period for DOT’s proposed pilot […]

ACE phases delayed citing troubles

Published by Director of Policy.
March 22, 2007 – 3:27 pm in Advocacy, Import & Export 1 Comment

Customs and Border Protection sent notice of a delay for implementing Phases 2 and 3 of the Automated Commercial Environment, which requires all commercial carriers to submit an electronic manifest, on Wednesday.
Citing technical problems of transmitting the e-Manifests, CBP will delay the phases a minimum of 30 days, leaving the new implementation of Phase […]

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