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:
Question: I would like to ask other members of the ICPA how they qualify vendors, suppliers and business partners for C-TPAT? We are a large multinational company dealing with thousands of suppliers around the world and the majority never ship to the U.S. on a regular basis. Obviously these partners are graded at a […]
Question: What are ICPA members doing to verify the nationality of visitors for CTPAT and deemed export concerns? Are you asking visitors to provide a copy of their passports? Answers:
Question: I’ve just learned about a practice that has been allowed by our Hong Kong Sourcing office – multiple factories co-loading in a CY/CY box taken out by one of the factories. For example, Factory A has a headload and picks up a container from the port to factory-load a CY/CY box; Factory B and […]
Question: What are ICPA members doing to verify the nationality of visitors for CTPAT and deemed export concerns? Are you asking visitors to provide a copy of their passports?
Question: Our company currently uses a software solution that handles all of our supplier survey’s for C-TPAT. Are there other members utilizing such software? We have seen only a small amount of responses from our survey’s, which really poses the question if the software is needed? Can other members elaborate on their experiences with such […]
Question: I’d like to ask the Membership what policies or practices they have established for those Vendors who score a “Critical Risk” in the C-TPAT factory assessment or from scoring of a factory questionnaire. Have they sought and received authority from Sr Leadership to not place PO‘s with vendors/factories who do not pass a […]
Question: I’d like to ask the Membership how they handle seal disposal for C-TPAT at the DCs. My company is updating our portal submission and wanted to address this aspect of C-TPAT. Would appreciate hearing from the esteemed membership.
