Again, I think in designing this new system we want to facilitate the process so that small importers, casual importers, one-time importers can do it easily. At the same time we want to have the data that can help us detect errors and clean those up. We also want the data to audit people who are creating an unlevel playing field by deliberately breaking the rules and not paying what they should.
In getting that calibration right, talking to somebody like McKinsey, which advises dozens of multinationals and other governments—they have seen this many times—about how you define those objectives and how you make the trade-offs between them....
If we had a system that shut down the border and didn't let anybody through but maximized revenue, that wouldn't be good for anybody else. There would be no revenue to collect because it would be too onerous.
I think it really was around that benchmarking to look at our plans and tell us whether we're hitting the sweet spot to let the compliant people through quickly and address the non-compliant people as quickly as possible.