CBP Designates Import Safety as a Priority Trade Issue
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice announcing that it has designated import safety as a Priority Trade Issue (PTI). According to CBP sources, thisis the first time that import safety has been designated as a PTI.
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Communications Daily is required reading for senior executives at top telecom corporations, law firms, lobbying organizations, associations and government agencies (including the FCC). Join them today!
Import Safety Designated a PTI to Ensure Unsafe Products Do Not Enter U.S.
Import safety was designated a PTI in order to prevent unsafe products from entering U.S. commerce.
The trade strategy to be utilized will include parties within the production and supply chain, domestic and foreign governments, and the international trade community.
Enhanced Risk Analysis, Targeting, Tracking, and ACE to be Used
According to CBP, the import safety PTI will safeguard public health and safety through more refined risk analysis, further developments in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), enhanced targeting and tracking, improved inter-agency and intra-agency communication and coordination, as well as continued partnerships with the trade community.
CBP adds that it will work collaboratively and collectively with other government agencies, other foreign governments, and the trade to better define and assess risk through increased automation and the sharing of information and to encourage greater use of partnership and best practices to protect the U.S. consumer.
According to CBP, as it and other agency and trade partners work with this initiative, the overall effect will allow for the continued flow of legitimate trade in products that are safer and healthier.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 03/13/08 and 04/04/08 news, 08031320 and 08040410, for BP summaries of CBP designating Textiles and Apparel and Antidumping/Countervailing Duty as PTIs, respectively.)
CBP notice (dated 04/04/08) available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/priority_trade/import_safety/import_safety_pti.xml