C-TPAT: The Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism aims to work with relevant industries to establish supply chain security management systems to ensure the safety of transport, the flow of security information and cargo conditions from the start to the end of the supply chain, thus preventing terrorist infiltration.

C-TPAT: is a voluntary program initiated by Customs and Border Protection (US Customs and Border Protection, abbreviated as "CBP") of the United States Department of Homeland Security after the September 11, 2002, and officially implemented on April 16, 2002. The full name of C-TPAT is "Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism", that is, "Customs-Trade Alliance against Terrorism". Through C-TPAT, CBP hopes to cooperate with relevant industry to establish a supply chain security management system to ensure the safety of transportation, safety information and cargo conditions from the beginning to the end of the supply chain, thus preventing terrorist infiltration. As a result, major U.S. retailers participating in the program generally require their suppliers to meet the C-TPAT anti-terrorism inspection standards when making overseas purchases.

C-TPAT Application: All industries.

What is the relationship between GSV authentication and C-TPAP authentication?

GSV Global Security Verification, short for Global Security Verification, is an international commercial service that supports the development and implementation of global supply chain security policies covering plant security, warehouse, packaging, loading, and shipment. The mission of the GSV system is to work with global suppliers and importers to facilitate the development of a global safety certification system to help all members enhance safety and risk control, improve supply chain efficiency, and reduce costs. Us Customs currently only recognizes ITS GSVS.

One of the requirements of C-TPAT is to assess safety and ensure that all partners in the supply chain, including manufacturers, warehouse managers, shippers, stevedors, middlemen, brokers, port personnel, and movers, meet the safety requirements of C-TPAT.

C-TPAT compliance review includes

1. Assess the operational process safety of an organization, define appropriate countermeasures and establish improvement plans to continuously identify problems

2. Evaluate the customer's compliance with C-TPAT standards, and periodically audit the customer's trade process

3. Based on the risk assessment of the whole supply chain, evaluate the compliance of the safety system and the implementation of the regulations, and also include the evaluation of manufacturers, freight forwarders and other service providers with similar safety requirements and standards.

Eight areas

Procedural Security

Documentation Processing

Physical Security

Access Controls

Personnel Security

Education and Training Awareness Education and training awareness

Manifest Procedures

Conveyance Security

Authentication definition

Membership is open to current US importers, carriers, customs brokers, cargoes/freight forwarders/non-ship public carriers, local US port authorities/terminal operators, Mexican manufacturers and a group of Asian and European manufacturers directly invited by CBP. Since May 30, 2002, through mid-2004, more than 6,500 U.S. and foreign companies have applied for C-TPAT membership (representing nearly 40% of the total value of U.S. imports), of which 4,000 have been approved by CBP and awarded C-TPAT certificates.

Certification benefits

The main benefit of passing C-TPAT is to speed up the processing of freight. Over time, as the number of C-TPAT members increases, non-C-TPAT members will find that their shipments will have to go through more and more detailed inspections with no guaranteed processing time.