[harpseal]

Please understand what I am proposing is getting enough inspectors to inspect every container in detail and to have importers pay the cost of it. If it is less than 1K per container fine lower the cost accordingly if it more raise the cost accordingly.

[Muleteam1]

Unless you are simply concerned about the quality of the inspection processes, wouldn't it be much more simple to just institute an import tax rather than have a generalized high fee for container inspections? This would certainly serve the purpose of raising the cost of the imported goods and would dissuade future importation but it would not allow the discrimination of imports that compete with American production from those that do not. Also, Custom Inspectors do a lot more than import container inspection. Salary increases would have to be paid by American taxpayers as well as add to the costs of US Customs services used by American businesses. This would hurt the very jobs you seek to protect.

Muleteam1