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http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/10/obama-2014-budget-study-a-land-border-crossing-fee/
Obama 2014 budget: study a land-border crossing fee
by Luiza Ch. Savage on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:58pm

Today, the Obama administration released its Fiscal Year 2014 budget proposal to Congress.
Apparently, Canadian opposition to an earlier sea-and-air border crossing fee (inserted into a legislation on a U.S.-Columbia tradedeal) didn’t make much of an impact on their policy making.

Today’s budget includes a section calling for the administration to study a fee for crossing the land border as well.

From the budget’s section for the Department of Homeland Security:

SEC. 544. (a) The Commissioner of the United States Customs and Border Protection shall:

(1) conduct a study assessing the feasibility and cost relating to establishing and collecting a land border crossing fee for both land border pedestrians and passenger vehicles along the northern and southwest borders of the United States; the study should include:

(A) the feasibility of collecting from existing operators on the land border such as bridge commissions, toll operators, commercial passenger bus, and commercial passenger rail;

(B) requirements to collect at land ports of entry where existing capability is not present; and

(C) any legal and regulatory impediments to establishing and collecting a land border crossing fee; and

(2) complete the study within 9 months of enactment of this Act.

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