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After several months of discussion, U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (CBP) has agreed to develop a U.S.
export version of its Customs-Trade Partnership Against
Terrorism (C-TPAT) program, which since its inception a
decade ago has applied solely to cargo security standards for
participants in the import supply chain.
Thomas Falanga, C-TPAT supervisor in CBP’s New York
field office, disclosed the agency’s intent at the Coalition of
New England Companies for Trade’s (CONECT) 16th
Annual Northeast Trade and Transportation Conference,
held in Newport, R.I.
In November, CBP announced that such a plan was being
considered, driven mostly by requests by large U.S.
exporters looking for guidance in verifying their compliance with foreign governments’ cargo security programs,
some of which are based on the C-TPAT protocol.
The export program’s initial focus, Falanga said, will be to
develop reciprocal agreements with foreign customs
administrations that have signed a bilateral Mutual
Recognition Arrangement (MRA) with CBP. MRAs provide
for the exchange of customs and security information, and
indicate that the security requirements or standards of the
foreign industry partnership program, as well as its verifi-
cation procedures, are similar to C-TPAT’s. This allows one
business partnership program to recognize the validation
findings of the other.
CBP currently has agreements with New Zealand, Canada,
Jordan, Japan, and South Korea. The agency is pursuing
MRAs with the European Union, Taiwan, and Singapore. It
also has plans to conduct joint validations with the General
Administration of China Customs in 2012, a preliminary
step toward signing an MRA, according to Falanga.
The C-TPAT export initiative is still in its early stages, and
the agency’s implementation plan “is not ready yet,” Falanga
said. The next steps are to establish export security criteria
with input from the trade community, and then to test them
through a pilot program, he said. Falanga said he expects the
export program would begin to move along “in the very near
future.” However, he cautioned that budget constraints probably would continue to limit the speed of development. ;
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