A Tail Gate exam is a more intensive Customs exam than an X-ray exam. If U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) selects your container for a Tail Gate exam, a Customs officer will break the seal of the container at the ocean terminal, open the ...
For an intensive exam, if Customs and Border Protection (CBP) selects your container, the container will be trucked to a Centralized Examination Station (CES), where the CES will unload the container.