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April 7, 2005 Trade Act Penalty System modified The following article is extracted from the 7 April 2005 Materials Management & Distribution E-Newsletter. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has changed its fines policy for carriers that fail to submit electronic cargo information before arrival at the border. Under the new rule, carriers who can prove to CBP that they successfully submitted the required information to their US Customs brokers will not be penalized for non-compliance. This is a victory for the Canadian
Trucking Alliance (CTA), "It was unfair of CBP to issue
fines exclusively to carriers for failure to meet Trade Act requirements
when carriers were submitting cargo information well in advance to their
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