CTPAT to Recognize BASC Certification for Business Partners Under New Action Plan
CBP hopes to strengthen its relationship between the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program and the World Business Alliance for Secure Commerce Organization (WBO) under a new action plan, the agency announced recently. Under the plan, when a CTPAT member “has…
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a BASC certified company as part of its supply chain, the CTPAT member only needs to document that this business partner is BASC certified in order to meet its CTPAT business partner monitoring and oversight obligations,” CBP said. Agency personnel will also now have access to WBO databases, CBP said. The plan will also result in creation of a Supply Chain Security Committee, described as an “expert group where supply chain security issues are discussed with organizations from the private sector that mirror what CTPAT does in the Public sector.” CBP said the “objectives under the CBP-WBO Action Plan will yield benefits to both organizations and to the trade at large” and that “with limited resources in both government and business, CBP must foster a global supply chain system that is prepared for, and can withstand, evolving threats.” BASC, which was originally the Business Anti-Smuggling Coalition, was within the U.S. Customs Service until 2002, when, after CTPAT was created, it was established as a separate nonprofit organization named WBO, CBP said.