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Tail Gate Exam
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 ...
Intensive Exam
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.
Customs Exam
Your shipment may be chosen for a customs exam when being imported into the U.S..
Customs Exam Fee
A customs exam fee is the fee incurred by the importer if a shipment has to go through a customs exam.
FEU (Forty-foot Equivalent Unit)
Forty-foot equivalent alludes to containerized cargo equal to one forty-foot (40 x 8 x 8 feet) or two twenty-foot (20 x 8 x 8 feet) containers. One FEU equals about 25 metric tons or 72 cubic meters.