C-TPAT

Question:   My company has been a certified member of C-TPAT since 2002 as an importer and our primary foreign source of imported products (97% of total imports) come from our parent located in a major Asian country. We have been to this country 4 times for validations and re-validations.   This year CBP wants to […]

Question: We are going through our C-TPAT Revalidation this year.  I am looking at our Cargo Maps, and our company does not contract the inland freight; that is done by the foreign supplier.  How do we track from the port of arrival in the U.S. to delivery when we don’t contract this?  How do you […]

Question: Is it acceptable to have people added as contacts in the C-TPAT portal who are not US Citizens? ========== Answer: Why not, you are not disclosing any controlled technical data in your C-TPAT portal. ==========  

Question: My company is a CTPAT Tier III company and we are in the process of updating our CTPAT gate procedures. I have been asked if it is really necessary to do a 7 point inspection on domestic containers as they enter our yard. These containers carry product that we purchase DDP and move on […]

Question: Is it unusual for CBP to select two different sites for “revalidation” purposes during the same year for the same company?  I’ve received notices 3 weeks apart.  I’ve personally never seen or heard of this… I’m curious if any of you have gone through the same. *************** Answers: We had one site chosen, the […]

Question: We are having an internal debate about the C-TPAT Minimum Security Criteria for gates. “Gates through which vehicles and/or personnel enter or exit must be manned and/or monitored.” If our facility has a gate that is open constantly during business hours, and then closed constantly after hours, does it need to be manned or […]

Question:   Submitted completed Security Profile update in August 2015.   Months later contacted by SCSS advising some sections rejected including a container security block completely blank.   Upon comparison versus our printed download copy of completed August submission,  we confirm that Container Security – Container Integrity MPTO (1601) did not exist in Portal 2.0 Importer as […]

Question:   This is a question to those members who are C-TPAT certified and who have a large supply chain. With over 1000 suppliers, in 20+ countries there could be several thousand possible cargo flows. For those with similarly large supplier bases, how are you managing an effective, usable cargo flow? Did you develop in-house? […]

Question: To all the C-TPAT participants out there: what percentage of your supplier’s facilities do you audit? Do you front the costs, or require suppliers pay for it? Is anyone doing 100%? We currently have around 70 foreign suppliers/facilities in our supply chain, most of which are in Asia. Our proposed strategy for foreign supplier […]

Question:   Is the SVI number the same as the account #. I am new to an account and cant find the SVI#, the company is listed to monitor others and to be monitored. Is the Tier status listed in the new portal for companies to see when they are monitoring them? ************* Answers: They […]

Question:   We have warehouses in Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua operate inside free trade zones. They have passed several C-TPAT audits by their customers even though they are technically not a C-TPAT certified warehouse in Central America.  I have some questions:1.       Does an official C-TPAT certification exist for warehouses in FTZ in Central America […]