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Original publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2007. LC Number: KF27 .H57 2006a OCLC Number: (OCoLC)181374260 Subject: Harbors -- Security measures -- United States. Excerpt: ... 11 which indicate that are very serious issues with people working at the ports who should not be working there. Each day that goes by, I just think increases that risk. Secretary Jackson? Mr. J. Let me say just a quick word about the CSI exami-ACKSON nations. There has been some misunderstanding about the metrics, and I would like to make a distinction to help further unpack this particular question you are asking about. What portion of the con-tainers that we ask to be inspected by a foreign government actu-ally are inspected? The distinction I would like to make is a dis-tinction between referral and request. When we do the initial tar-geting and begin our profiling of a container before it is loaded onto a ship, we have many, many, many cases where we ask the foreign government if they have additional information about what we con-sider to be a preliminary container of concern. That is what the CBP would refer to as a referral. So we make a referral, and we say, can you give us more information about this? For example, we may have scored higher for risk a container that is being moved by a firm that we have little knowledge of, but it may be that the port and the customs service in the foreign gov-ernment has extensive experience with that particular firm. They may export to multiple other locations. So we can use these referrals to gather additional data. We do that routinely. And then for those that we want to make a specific request, we do that and ask for a request that those containers be opened or inspected through physical means. Our numbers for these examinations reached towards the 89 percent range when we actually make a request that they open the container or further ex-amine the container in a physical way. So that number is
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H.R. 4954: the SAFE Port Act: full hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress
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