Customs & Border Protection's Security Measures

Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT)

• C-TPAT is a voluntary program. C-TPAT partners with importers, carriers, forwarders, warehousemen and other trade participants to protect their supply chains from concealment of terrorist weapons.
  
  
• C-TPAT's strategic plan includes:
  • Improve security of a significant percentage of shipments coming to the United States
  • Provide benefits and incentives to private sector companies who meet C-TPAT criteria
  • Concentrate CBP's inspectional resources on higher risk shipments.
    
    
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  • Securing the global supply chain
  • C-TPAT benefits
  • C-TPAT minimum security criteria
  
  
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  • All receivers of international shipments are responsible to inspect trailers and containers arriving at their facility, before unloading the goods
  • The seven point inspection process for containers
  • The seventeen point inspection process for tractors and trailers
  • Seals used to secure loaded containers and trailers bound for the USA must meet or exceed the current PAS ISO 17712 standards for high security seals. All loaded containers bound for the USA must have these seals affixed
  • Seal requirements for manufacturers
    
    
• 10+2 USCBP Rule Importer Security Filing and Additional Carrier Requirement
  • To help prevent terrorist weapons from being transported to the USA, ocean vessel carriers bringing cargo to the U.S. are required to transmit certain data to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) about the cargo before the goods are exported
  • It will be a combined effort between the U.S. Importer, Foreign Vendor, Freight Forwarder and Steamship Lines. The two parties responsible to transmit the data are ABI filers (typically Customs Brokers) and the Carriers
  • Importer Security Filing and Additional Carrier Requirements
  • Importer Security Filing Form
    
  
  
  

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