Customs Says Few Trucks Stopped Over Prior Notice

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.S. Customs officials said they turned away a small percentage of food-hauling trucks last week at 57 U.S. border crossings from Mexico and Canada, because they did not give sufficient advance notice of their arrival in the first week of stricter enforcement of prior-notice rules on food imports.

Sue Challis, a spokeswoman for the Customs and Border Protection Bureau, said the U.S. began tightening its shipment-notification rules at 6 a.m. local times on June 4.

She said border agents turned away trucks at both the Canadian and Mexican borders, but that it was unclear from data the agency received whether those were foreign or U.S. drivers.

“The numbers are low — they are very low,” Challis said. “We turned away very few” shipments.

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