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Info provided and translated by the
American Chamber of Commerce of Peru (AmCham Peru)

Hence, the requisites for a CSI port should be applied in a mandatory way by every port that has a trade relation with the U.S and all shipments that the U.S. exports should also be scanned in origin (by a reciprocity principle). Therefore, global trade will be safer, not ontly by guns and drugs, but also smuggling will be attacked as well.

However, it is possible that the non intrusive inspection system might save costs, facilitate trade and make trade safer, only if it is not required that during a certain amount of time –at which there will not be availability of equipment due to an artificial increase in its demand and a reduced supply by the producers of the equipment- at least not 100% of all the exports should be expected to comply with this new measure. If not, there would be a risk of creating barriers to global trade and the idea of trade facilitation would be lost.

Moreover, nowadays, most of the American ports have the aforementioned equipment, while the ports of other countries, especially developing countries, don’t. Thus, a dispute is about to be seen, particularly between United States and the rest of the countries, led by the European Union, who considers that the U.S. requirements are quite too much. Actually, and ideal scheme would be that the 100% of the shipments should be inspected in origin and only the risky ones should be inspected in destiny.

Thus, as it can be noticed, the trade facilitation is a subject that might be on the news for quite a long time, but it is necessary to take action in order to really implement it. What actions will Peru take in this matter?