Brussels raps US over cost of 100% box scanning at EU ports

THE EUROPEAN Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union has released a strongly-worded report condemning US government plans to introduce 100% scanning of containers at the ports of export and claimed that the European Union “does not contemplate implementing 100% scanning of containers at export”.

In the European Commission’s latest staff working paper, Secure Trade and 100% Scanning of Containers, Algirdas emeta writes: “Implementing 100% scanning would require sizeable investments, increase transport costs significantly and entail massive welfare losses.
“More importantly, such burdens to port...

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