Question: For the members who participate in C-TPAT, what is your process for amending entries with U.S. Customs found to be discrepant? Discrepant meaning overages or shortages were found upon unload of the shipment. Duties may be owed, or may have been overpaid to U.S. Customs. Is there a threshold on what needs […]
QUESTION: Having trouble validating C-TPAT membership. We are in the food (perishable) industry. We are having trouble addressing the value that C- TPAT membership brings, other than the obvious intangible asset of the membership. Does anyone have a readymade document with C-TPAT selling points? Remember, perishables so having trouble selling any notion that […]
Question: For driver’s making deliveries to our US locations, our current policy has been to ask for govt-issued photo ID (aka: their CDL). Our guard does a visual of photo vs driver, then logs the driver name, CDL license#, name of carrier, along with trailer#. FUTURE: All driver CDLs allegedly have a […]
Question: How are other members satisfying the C-TPAT requirement for financial screening of business partners? Do you screen them annually? If so, who are some of third party companies you use to check financial soundness? ************
Question: C-TPAT program requires use of PAS ISO 17712 high security seals. Situation came up with truck shipments from MX supplier to our US location. Seal is physically applied by our vendor and seal # is logged and included on the B/L generated by vendor. Does it matter WHO actually […]
Question: This is a questions to C-TPAT members. We are a large retailer with several distribution centers. We are looking to have permanent, part-time, flex employees to manage peek ship seasons or events. My question relates to access control in the distribution centers. We will perform all the normal hiring background checks; however, […]
Question: This is a questions to C-TPAT members. We are a large retailer with several distribution centers. We are looking to have permanent, part-time, flex employees to manage peek ship seasons or events. My question relates to access control in the distribution centers. We will perform all the normal hiring background checks; however, […]
Question: The seal should never be provided by the carrier or trucker, but by the shipper who should follow your specific procedures and “minimum requirements”. I know many importers who actually supply seals to their shippers and randomly change type, color or even seal manufacturer to ensure the lowest possible fraud possible or […]
Question: I am trying to help management understand the need for visiting factories as a C-TPAT member. We do have a buying agent, who evaluates each factory for C-TPAT prior to placing any production in the factory, and the buying agent visits the factories annually (at least that is what they are […]
QUESTION: Would anyone care to share their processes with regards to C-TPAT validation of foreign vendors? Is this process handled in-house or do you use a third party provider? Is revalidation based on specific criteria such as volume/spend or simply at predetermined intervals such as every third year?
Question: To the best of my knowledge the program is essentially “blanket” in nature….meaning that once a portion of the importer’s supply chain has been validated ( as in a site visit and validation of one of the importer’s foreign suppliers ) the importer is risk assessed at a certain level for their entire […]
Question: Has anyone ever voluntarily withdrawn from CTPAT? If so, what response did they get from CBP when they notified CBP of their intent to voluntarily withdraw? Did they see any noticeable difference in how their shipments were treated? ************
