Global Logistic Chain Security

The ‘100% scanning’ law, or House Resolution 1 (H.R. 1), aims to protect US
territory against terrorist risks likely to affect the globallogistic chain. A
unilateral step, it may be perceived as a disguised protectionist measure
which would transfer the risk of ‘seacurity’ to itspartners, particularly if
the principle of reciprocity does not apply.In this changing economic (over
325 million containers handled, under 0.5% of which are currently scanned) and
regulatory context (following the SAFE framework of standards developed by the
World Customs Organization), this forward-looking work parts from a single
hypothesis: what will happen if the US 100 % scanning law adopted by Congress
in July 2007 actually enters into application on 1 July 2012, or even sooner
should there be an attack in the United States, and what are the alternatives
?