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  Tuesday  February 4  2003    02: 28 AM

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Business predicts chaos at U.S. border

The U.S. government plans to require up to 24 hours' notice of all commercial shipments into the United States by October, a move Canadian exporters say will hit both economies hard.

The advance notification plan would force truckers to submit a contents list four hours before loading their cargo, an impossibility for just-in-time operations such as the Big Three automakers, which ship $100-million in components across the border each day.
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