CBP issued a correction to a recent notice that proposed and outlined new data elements meant to help with vetting members of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (see 2202170041). "The document contained information about the CTPAT Portal that was in the process of being updated to meet current modern computing standards and to allow for updates to the minimum-security criteria," the agency said in a notice released March 3. "Due to unforeseen developmental delays, CBP is pausing proposed updates to these internal systems."
Two Democrats and two Republicans in the House have introduced a bill that would require the Department of Homeland Security to offer third-party logistics providers slots in a Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) pilot. The bill, introduced Feb. 25, would give 10 non-asset-based logistics companies and 10 logistics companies that use their own warehouses slots in the pilot program, which would be required to last at least one year and as many as five years. The department would have to open applications for the pilot within the first year after the bill's enactment. Reps. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, Steve Womack, R-Ark., and Elaine Luria, D-Va., co-sponsored the bill.
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CBP is requesting comments on new data elements meant to help with vetting members of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, it said in a notice. "Additional information is being collected based on CTPAT’s new vetting process as the prior vetting process was found to be insufficient in being able to identify violators," the agency said. "Not collecting this information would result in companies that are high risk for committing illegal activity to be allowed into, and continue to be part of, the CTPAT program." CBP’s National Targeting Center found the previous "vetting process to be ineffective in capturing high risk companies," resulting in such companies being "allowed to be CTPAT members and enjoy the many trade facilitation benefits of membership," it said.
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CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP recently posted question and answers from its Virtual Trade Week conference. The documents include information on forced labor (see 2107210040), e-commerce (see 2107210045), the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program (see 2107220054), the Global Business Identifier Initiative (see 2107230034), export modernization and the 21st Century Customs Framework (see 2107200067).
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CBP plans to issue a Federal Register notice in coming months that will officially end the Importer Self-Assessment program and fully launch the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Trade Compliance program, said Amy Hatfield, a trade compliance program manager within the CTPAT office. The notice will also end the pilot version of CTPAT Trade Compliance, said Hatfield, speaking virtually Aug. 4 during a CBP Detroit Trade Week event. Currently, the Trade Compliance program membership is made up only of former ISA members, she said.