CBP Posts Updated Notice on its Import Safety Priority Trade Issue
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated notice on the Import Safety Priority Trade Issue (PTI). CBP first designated Import Safety as a PTI in 2008 and CBP sources have confirmed that it continues to be a PTI in 2009.
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Import Safety is PTI to Ensure Unsafe Products Do Not Enter U.S. Commerce
CBP has designed the Import Safety PTI to ensure that unsafe products do not enter the commerce of the U.S. by working 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 to encourage greater use of partnership and best practices to protect the U.S. consumer.
Key Participants Include All Parties in Supply Chain, Governments, Etc.
CBP states that the key participants in the import safety trade strategy include all parties within the production and supply chain, domestic and foreign governments and the international trade community, involved in the product lifecycle.
Enhanced Risk Analysis, Targeting, Tracking, and ACE to be Used
According to CBP, the Import Safety PTI will focus on safeguarding the public health and safety from unsafe importations 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 states that as it and its 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 04/09/08 news, 08040300, for BP summary of the designation of import safety as a 2008 PTI.)
CBP notice (dated 04/17/09) available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/priority_trade/import_safety.xml.