.INFO: US, EU seek consensus on securing cargo shipments from terrorists

In the decade since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Washington has sought to implement its own stringent security standards at airports and commercial ports around the world in order to counter the perceived threat of another impending terrorist strike.

In reaction to this threat assessment, the US Congress passed a provision in 2007 that called for all containers to be screened at their ports of departure by 2012, sparking controversy in Europe.

Many European officials argued that the measure would have a direct impact on Europe's internal market, unfairly diverting goods to ports that had implemented Washington's security standards.

"Obviously the US feels much more threatened than the European Union," Patryk Pawlak, an expert on homeland security issues in the US and EU, told Deutsche Welle.

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