{"id":16072,"date":"2013-05-02T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=16072"},"modified":"2013-04-30T19:35:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T23:35:28","slug":"chamber-not-on-board-with-entry-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/02\/chamber-not-on-board-with-entry-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamber not on board with entry fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2013\/04\/24\/chamber-not-on-board-with-entry-fees\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It may be promoting \u201c1 Less Trip\u201d to the U.S., but the Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce\u00a0isn\u2019t on board with Canadians paying an entry fee to visit their neighbours to the south.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. is proposing a \u201cland border crossing fee\u201d to ease the country\u2019s financial situation. The Department of Homeland Security\u2019s 2014 budget calls for a study on the costs to collect a fee from vehicles and pedestrians crossing the border, and to complete it within nine months.<\/p>\n<p>The department\u2019s secretary, Janet Napolitano, wrote in written testimony two weeks ago fees to support processing travellers haven\u2019t been adjusted for more than 10 years and more customs officers are needed.<\/p>\n<p>Kithio Mwanzia, the chamber\u2019s director of government relations, said a fee would \u201cgreatly impact\u201d cross-border trading.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: It may be promoting \u201c1 Less Trip\u201d to the U.S., but the Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce\u00a0isn\u2019t on board with Canadians paying an entry fee to visit their neighbours to the south. The U.S. is proposing a \u201cland border crossing fee\u201d to ease the country\u2019s financial situation. The Department of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[382,2,49,39,52],"tags":[3223,401,2417,8815,8814,4415,8819,4416,1205,8818,8816,8817,8813,41,5088],"class_list":["post-16072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-border","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","category-niagara-falls-travel","category-niagara-falls-trips","tag-canadians","tag-chamber-of-commerce","tag-cross-border","tag-crossing-the-border","tag-customs-officers","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-greater-niagara-chamber-of-commerce","tag-homeland-security","tag-janet-napolitano","tag-kithio-mwanzia","tag-land-border","tag-neighbours","tag-niagara-chamber-of-commerce","tag-niagara-falls","tag-travellers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}