Although U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the General Administration of China Customs recently began their C-TPAT validation pilot program with three volunteer C-TPAT importers in mid-March, CBP sources state that the validation visits have already occurred. The next step is for a validation report to be prepared which contains recommendations to address any supply chain security weaknesses. (See ITT's Online Archives or 03/26/08 news, 08032605, for earlier BP summary on this pilot.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a press release to its Web site announcing that CBP and the General Administration of China Customs began a Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism validation pilot program in China during the week of March 17, 2008.
During the February 13, 2008 meeting of the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Related Homeland Security Functions (COAC)1, CBP officials discussed, among other things, the possibility of a review of whether risk management could be applied to CBP's bond processes.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an Importer Self-Assessment (ISA) PowerPoint presentation from the 2008 Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) seminar that was held on February 26-29, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The Canada Border Services Agency has announced its goal of introducing a modernized Partner in Protection (PIP) program by June 30, 2008. Membership applications to the current PIP program will only be accepted until March 31, 2008. After that date, no applications will be accepted until June 30, 2008, when the modernized PIP program takes effect. (Canada's PIP program is similar to the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program.) (CBSA announcement, updated 03/07/08, available at http://www.cbsa.gc.ca/security-securite/pip-pep/menu-eng.html)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a Truck Manifest CSMS message announcing that it has resolved the problem with ACE Truck Manifest not generating truck manifest EDI status notifications.
During the February 13, 2008 meeting of the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Related Homeland Security Functions (COAC)1, CBP officials discussed, among other things, the status of extending eligibility in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program to third party logistics providers (3PLs) and the addition of two new C-TPAT offices to handle Canada and Mexico issues.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a memo providing proration and liquidation instructions for the 2008 in-quota (low duty) tariff-rate quota quantity for tuna and skipjack (tuna), in airtight containers, not in oil, weighing with their contents not over 7 kilograms each, that is not the product of any U.S. insular possession.
During the February 13, 2008 meeting of the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Related Homeland Security Functions (COAC)1, CBP officials discussed, among other things, the status of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) third party validation pilot in China and joint U.S.-China C-TPAT validations.
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has announced its goal of introducing a modernized Partners in Protection (PIP) program by June 30, 2008. The modernized program will require members to adhere to stricter, better-defined and targeted security measures to strengthen border and supply chain security.