CBP Announces Email Notification for Contacts when C-TPAT SVI Company Changes Occur
U.S. Customs and Border Protection states it has improved the C-TPAT Portal Status Verification Interface (SVI) so that it notifies all contacts associated with a Partner Account SVI monitoring page if certain changes have occurred, including (1) a company drops off the list (they generate a new SVI number), (2) a company status changes to a Non-Certified state, or (3) a company status changes to a Certified state.
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CBP states that new additions will not trigger this email notification. In addition, due to legal constraints, the notification will not call out in detail what change occurred. Instead, modified dates have been added to assist the partner in determining what caused the notification.
According to a presentation on this change, CBP deployed the email notification application on August 13, 2011.
Tutorial available here.
(SVI serves as a tool to verify membership in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program.)