“Our company is assessing all our importing facilities as part of the C-TPAT Security Profile preparation process. Some of these facilities do not have exterior fencing. Can any of the membership advise what USCBP’s posture is towards facilities without exterior fencing, and what additional security enhancements might be required for facilities without fencing?”
So here’s an interesting dilemma. We are an apparel importer who contracts out apparel manufacturing via a vendor who contracts the production to a related factory. The factory, at their discretion, can subcontract the sewing operations to another approved factory who performs the origin conferring step. However, the sewn goods are then shipped to the […]
How have other C-TPAT participants handled this situation? Parent Company has 6 Subsidiaries. Each Sub has 10 Warehouses for a total of 60. 50 ship and receive domestic US only; and 10 ship and receive to and from Mexico, Canada, and Asia. Do all 60 warehouses have to meet C-TPAT security measures or just the […]
We are currently looking to incorporate appropriate language regarding C-TPAT and our Security Requirements and would like to get an idea of what other C-TPAT certified companies have written. Can someone share verbiage used in Purchase order/contracts pertaining to security requirements.
Our Buyers frequently buy from direct importers on a DDP or “POE” basis – we take ownership when the container in which the goods were (presumably) imported is delivered to our DC or when our assigned trucker pulls the container from the rail ramp or port facility. Most of the time, the seller (the party […]
After acceptance into CTPAT and also following up with the portal, does anyone have some good recommendations of how they continue to monitor and maintain their business? Is it just updating the portal? Do you still hear from your CTPAT team? Have they come out to revalidate?
Can anyone share an agenda that US Customs used during their foreign supplier validation?
Our parent company (a holding company) has a subsidiary that provides import operations as shared services to its several operating units. Currently, there exists the possibility that my operating unit may be sold to a private equity group or another company. The “imports” subsidiary serves as the importer of record for the direct imports of […]
Our company is in the infancy stages of pursuing C-TPAT status. We have sent and received Import Vendor Security Questionnaire’s from our Asian vendors. I am in the process of analyzing the data and do notice a pattern on some questions pertaining to background checks on prospective employees, performing drug tests, verifying driver’s licenses. Where […]
After acceptance into CTPAT and also following up with the portal, does anyone have some good recommendations of how they continue to monitor and maintain their business? Is it just updating the portal? Do you still hear from your CTPAT team? Have they come out to revalidate?
I would like to ask the membership where my level of liability ends in terms of distribution during a CTPAT foreign site validation. Currently, my freight forwarder picks up material at my suppliers dock and loads that material onto a container for shipment to the US. When CBP validates my supplier how will this scenario […]
Does anyone have the latest number of C-TPAT participants? Of that number, how many are validated?
