C-TPAT Exporter Applications 'Now Live,' Says CBP
The second phase of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Portal 2.0 “is now live,” allowing exporter-only entities to apply for C-TPAT membership, said CBP in a CSMS message (here). “Companies that desire to initiate a brand new security model application to C-TPAT as an exporter” may now apply, it said. Importers who have already signed the Export Agreement have automatically had their C-TPAT security model expanded to include the exporter security criteria that now require responses, as well as other data fields unique to exporters that must be completed, said CBP. Importers that have not signed the Export Agreement will be able to expand their security model when CBP releases the next software update “in mid-June,” said the agency.
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CBP had originally planned the phase II update for May 16 (see 1504230015), with exporter applications set to come online May 17 (see 1505110007). However, the agency delayed the release of phase II due to "technical issues that could not be resolved in the twelve-hour blackout window that we had been provided,” said a CBP official (see 1505220026). Besides the exporter application for C-TPAT, phase II also “corrects many of the error messages and system issues that users experienced in Portal 2.0 Phase I,” said CBP. It also introduces features that will eventually allow C-TPAT members with multiple accounts “to potentially manage these accounts jointly in the future,” it said.