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CTPAT is a
joint government-business initiative to
build cooperative relationships that
strengthen overall supply chain and
border security. CTPAT recognizes that Customs can
provide the highest level of security only
through close cooperation
with the ultimate
owners of the supply chain: importers,
carriers, Customs brokers, warehouse
operators and manufacturers.
Through this initiative,
Customs is asking importers, Customs brokers
and Forwarders to ensure the integrity of their
security
practices and communicate their
security guidelines to their business
partners within the supply chain.
The principals
of Pier 34 Solutions, Inc. are experts in
supply-chain security, which puts us in an
excellent position to assist
importers with
achieving Certified Partnership in the
Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism
(CTPAT)
initiative of the
Department of Homeland
Security, Bureau of Customs and Border
Protection. We will assist you throughout
the entire process,
and alert you to
situations and procedures in your business
that can be altered to make your supply
chain more secure.
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Pier 34 Solutions, Inc. has
developed a methodology that
assists importers, Customs brokers and
Forwarders with this important process. We
have designed Security Surveys that meet or
exceed CBP CTPAT standards. We ask each
entity in your supply chain to provide
detailed information about their security
awareness and implementation. Inside
the U.S.A., we help importers improve their
security procedures and we suggest
implementation of security measures, should
we observe areas for
improvement. Should
changes or improvements be necessary at
any stage of product handling, we follow up
with suggested fixes.
After we have received the
completed security surveys from your supply
chain partners, and also your own
comprehensive
security information
concerning your U.S. receiving points, we
compile this information into a report that
we submit to you for
your approval. After your CTPAT Point of Contact, who is a
company officer in your organization, has
approved the entire
report, it is submitted
to CBP. From
that point forward, we follow CBP's progress
with evaluating your application, and we
assist you with any changes and/or additions
that CBP requests.
After you have achieved Tier 1 status in CTPAT, we can
continue to evaluate security issues as
relationships change in
your supply chain
dynamics, and we can continue to offer
suggestions to keep your supply chain in
full compliance with
CTPAT requirements as
they exist at the moment of your
certification, and as they evolve over time.
We also can assist
you through the CBP
validation process.
This
process, executed by a CBP CTPAT evaluation
team, ensures that the security
standards
that you have stated to be in place, are in
fact observed and are verifiable. After your
successful validation, you
will achieve Tier
2 status, and you will receive additional
benefits at the points of entry for your
imported merchandise.
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Why join CTPAT?
Over 80%
of import volume into the USA is now done by companies that are CTPAT certified. They derive measurable and
extremely valuable
benefits from their membership in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against
Terrorism.
CTPAT offers
businesses an opportunity to play an active role in the war against
terrorism. By participating in this worldwide
supply chain security
initiative, companies will ensure a more secure and expeditious supply
chain for their employees,
suppliers and customers. Beyond these
essential security benefits, CBP offers benefits, including:
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A reduced number
of CBP inspections (reduced border delay times);
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Priority
processing for CBP inspections. (Front of the Line processing for
inspections when possible);
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Assignment of a CTPAT Supply Chain Security Specialist (SCSS) who will work with
the company to validate and
enhance
security throughout the
company’s international supply chain;
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Potential
eligibility for CBP Importer Self-Assessment program (ISA) with an
emphasis on self-policing, not CBP audits.
Another very good reason to join CTPAT
is that many large US companies – your customers might be among them –
are
now demanding that their US suppliers are CTPAT certified. So why
miss out on high-volume business only because
you haven’t taken the steps to become CTPAT certified?
And last but not
least: should another terrorist attack take place in the USA, and it
turns out that a weapon of mass
destruction
entered the country by ship
or plane, all importing will immediately be suspended, and the
resumption of trade
will of course first be granted to CTPAT-certified
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