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GAO-07-804R 1 (2007-06-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaands0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I GA 0 T E WAccountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 June 29, 2007 Congressional Committees Subject: Information on Port Security in the Caribbean Basin Referred to as our third border, the Caribbean Basin has significant maritime links with the United States.1 Given these links and the region's proximity, the United States is particularly interested in ensuring that the ports in the Caribbean Basin-through which goods bound for this country's ports and cruise ships carrying its citizens must travel-are secure. Section 233 (c) of the Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006 (SAFE Port Act)2 requires GAO to report on various security-related aspects of Caribbean Basin ports. Our specific objectives were to identify and describe the * threats and security concerns in the Caribbean Basin related to port security, * actions that foreign governments and local stakeholders have taken in the Caribbean Basin to implement international port security requirements and the challenges that remain, * activities reported to be under way by U.S. government agencies to enhance port security in the Caribbean Basin, and 1We defined the Caribbean Basin using the boundaries established in the U.S. trade programs known collectively as the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI). In 1983 the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (Pub. L. No. 98-67, 97 Stat. 369 (1983)), enacted the CBI into law. The CBI was substantially expanded in 2000 through the U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (Pub. L. No. 106-200, 114 Stat. 251 (2000)), and currently provides 24 beneficiary countries with duty-free access to U.S. markets. These countries are Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. For the purposes of this letter, however, five additional countries were included: Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Suriname, and Venezuela. 2Pub. L. No. 109-347, 120 Stat. 1884 (2006).

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