border cooperation - donna davis
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Border Cooperation…Expanding Alternatives Border crossings are a key component of trade. They serve as essential checkpoints, ensuring the safety and security of people and truck loads entering our countries and driving on our highways. They can also serve as bottlenecks of congestion that slow trade. Learn how we can improve existing border crossings, and provide new alternatives to improve the flow of trade and create new opportunities for our communities.TRANSCRIPT
Donna F. DavisAssociate Professor, Marketing
Georgie G. Snyder Professorship
Working Together to Improve Border Management
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Canada/US trade
Primarily raw materials and components
Complex cross-border
production system
We don’t sell to each other; we build
together.
$315 B
$281 B
2011 U. S. Census Foreign Trade Data
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2011 Statistics Canada
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CAD
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Top 5 US Export Markets
Top 5 Canadian Export Markets2011 US Census Bureau
Canada is the #1 customer for US goods.
The US is the #1 customer
for Canadian goods.
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How did we get here?
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Why is it important to improve border management?
Improving trade facilitation by half would increase world trade by nearly 15%.
Largest potential gain is in improving the soft
infrastructure.
Port ef-ficiency
CustomsRegulation
Service structure
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Dual purpose of border management
Bridges to trade facilitation
and fences for regulatory control
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What changes are needed in the soft infrastructure to lower barriers to legitimate trade
while maintaining necessary control at the border?
Soft infrastructure is made up of capabilities embedded in human resources, social structures, and business and regulatory environments of border crossings that facilitate or impede international trade.
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Interagency Cooperatio
n
Service Orientation
Collaborative
Capability
LeadershipRelationship managementGlobal horizon
Mission alignmentShared standardsInformation integration
Differentiated servicesResponsivenessTrained personnel
The Soft Infrastructure
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Collaborative Capability
1. Leadership2. Relationship management3. Global vision
“So, leadership makes a difference, which this is about. Leadership makes a difference.”
“…work on the relationship, the relationship, the relationship.”
“Some are like, ‘I want a little chunk of the profits here; I want to run him [a trucker] through my town.’ No, no, get beyond that.”
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Interagency Cooperation
1. Mission alignment2. Shared standards3. Information integration
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We are the guardians of our Nation’s borders. We are America’s frontline.We safeguard the American homeland at and beyond our borders. We protect the American public against terrorists and the instruments of terror. We steadfastly enforce the laws of the United States while fostering our Nation’s economic security through lawful international trade and travel. We serve the American public with vigilance, integrity and professionalism.
The Canada Border Services Agency works to ensure Canada's security and prosperity by managing the access of people and goods to and from Canada.
Mission Alignment
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Interagency Cooperation
1. Mission alignment2. Shared standards3. Information integration
“There’s an issue around standards … Canada would have to harmonize with the US. It’s not going to work. It’s cooperation – recognizing differences and then cooperating by respecting the way they do things.”
Pre-clearance information received via FAST program reported to be working to provide one view of commercial traffic.
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Service Orientation
1. Differentiated services2. Responsiveness 3. Trained personnel
“Most of the people coming through here are on legitimate business and are not a problem.”
“There are a lot of people in certain political appointments that don’t understand what’s going on here.”
“It makes a difference …That guy who lives in Wild Horse is probably one of the nicest ones in the country.”
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Changes in the soft infrastructure can lower barriers to legitimate trade
while maintaining necessary control at the border.
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Lessons learned …1. Collaborative capability at the regional level is making a
difference.2. The private sector is leading the public sector in efforts to
improve the soft infrastructure.3. Interagency cooperation is a moving target. Commercial
trade will have to work around this barrier in the near term.
4. The technology is largely in place to support better service at the Canadian/US border.
5. Continuing to build and strengthen the distributed network of local/regional efforts is the (only) way forward.
