CBP Posts C-TPAT Portal 2.0 User Manual
CBP posted a user manual for the coming Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Portal 2.0 (here). CBP plans to launch the first phase of Portal 2.0 on Dec. 8 (see 1411170024). The first phase will include a new interface for the portal, it said. "A main tenet of Portal 2.0 is to facilitate more effective account management through combining multiple Trade Accounts into a single Trade Organization," said CBP in the manual. As part of the second phase, "it will also be possible to merge multiple C-TPAT accounts into a single Security Model, if accounts are managed under the same trade account and follow the same security policies and procedures."
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CBP has also said it plans to begin the new C-TPAT Exporter Entity after the first phase of Portal 2.0 is completed, though specific timing remains unclear (see 1411060012). The third phase of Portal 2.0 will include the rewrite of remaining areas of Portal 1.0 not previously included in Portal 2.0, including validations, validation responses, European Union mutual recognition registrations, mutual recognition records management and highway carrier harmonization, it said. The completion of Phase 3 will allow Portal 1.0 to be decommissioned by CBP, the agency said..