The customs duties leviable on goods destined for the interior shall be collected at the portofentry and handed over to the administration of the area of destination.
The World Shipping Council has already argued that vessels should be stopped and inspected, if necessary, not at the initial portofentry in America but at their ultimate destination.
The ring road around the western city of Caen was also blocked, and more barricades were set up near the northern portof Le Havre, and at a key entry point to the motorway from the north to Paris.