C-TPAT

Question:Can any members share their corporate commitment statement pertaining to the C-TPAT or compliance statement that covers import and C-TPAT? Many thanks.

Question:Has anyone had a validation or revalidation done in India?   Could you share any information of your experience especially with the transportation to the port and CFS facilities?

Question: Does CTPAT allow warehouse and VMI 3PL’s to become members? ==================================================================== Answer: As of October 2008 yes!  See attached from the CBP website.As long as they have INTERNATIONAL business activities.  If they are only in the USA, with no foreign locations my answer would still be no. Attachment 1 Attachment 2 Attachment 3

Question: We are a C-TPAT validated importer, but our internal fleet wants to become aC-TPAT or PIP validated carrier.  Can a carrier choose which program to join and then request mutualrecognition from the other program?  Any thoughts?If mutual recognition is not fully implemented in reality, how long youthink it will take for “real” mutual recognition?

Question:Looks like our company is going to start consolidating business divisions, but only a couple of them have CTPAT status.  I was hoping you guys could highlight “watch outs” for any business changes encountered through mergers that would constitute an automatic CTPAT revocation.  e.g. changes in IOR, name dissolution, etc…  Any input or references would […]

Question: Quick question… do CTPAT – Fast Lane users need to use high securityseals for trailers going south bound from the US to Mexico, or canstandard seals be used?  Trailers could be empties or they could containraw material…

Question:Our company has recently signed a contract that will increase our importing and exporting over the next 10-11 years.  We are not CTPAT certified and they feel if may be too costly and lengthy of a process to pursue.   I feel we should begin the process of being CTPAT certified as the international transportation specialists […]

Question: Here’s a query for the ICPA trade membership regarding a C-TPAT question that has come up. We would like to know if any companies out there (with more than one IOR) are set up to have, both a C-TPAT secured lane and a non C-TPAT lane (for the misc. one-off type shipments).  The idea […]

Question:   This question goes out to all the C-TPAT participants who have been validated within the last 6 months.  (You know who you are!)  Were there any particular areas that the SCSS’s were looking at or paying particular attention to?     I want to make sure we have all areas covered, especially those which […]

Question:   My specific question revolves around maintenance crews…e.g. like janitorial services.  I just found out about our subcontracted services and these guys are here almost all night cleaning… they have full access to our entire facility which does ship and receive international cargo and they are not really supervised… they also think they arm […]

Question: Customs just finished a foreign revalidation of one of our factories.  Now it wants to revalidate our US headquarters.  Has anyone been revalidated domestically?  We thought revalidations were for foreign suppliers only.  

Question:   Any tips or lessons learned about entering the C-TPAT security profile in the CBP web portal?  Feedback/comments from the SCSS? Any way you would have entered it differently, looking back?  I am about to enter ours, in the next couple daysAnswer: