Technology Improved Security, Flow of Cross-Border Traffic

ross-border trade between the United States, Canada and Mexico saw an in-creased reliance on technology in 2005 to facilitate the accounting and paperwork needed to expedite freight moving between the three countries, as well as to monitor trucks and their goods for security purposes.

The year also saw the departure of attorney Robert Bonner, who returned to private law practice in November after four years as U.S. Customs Commissioner.

However, there was not the mass influx of Mexican trucks across the southern border of the United States as had been expected in light of a Supreme Court decision in 2004 that gave trucks from Mexico the OK to more freely enter the United States.