Reuters: “In short, a regulatory tweak fueling America’s online shopping habit is also enabling the country’s crippling addiction to synthetic opioids. So is an immutable aspect of international trade: Transporting goods is largely an honor system that’s easy for bad actors to exploit.”
“Senders are supposed to tell the truth about what’s inside the boxes they export. But shipping documents are easy to falsify, and contraband fairly simple to camouflage. Authorities can’t inspect every box without bringing global commerce to a halt.”
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