Teams of CBP officers are stationed in foreign locations to work together with their host foreign government counterparts, in order to target and pre-screen containers through “non-intrusive inspection” and radiation detection technology,
as early in the supply chain and as rapidly as possible without slowing down trade. Since the inception of CSI, a significant number of customs administrations have joined the programme, and CSI is now operational at 58 ports in North America,
Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin and Central America, pre-screening over 80 per cent of all maritime containerized cargo imported into the United States.