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The Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism ("C-TPAT") program was developed as a voluntary effort to protect the import supply-chain from terrorists who would use one of the nine million cargo containers that arrive in the U.S. each year to smuggle personnel, firearms, and weapons of mass destruction. If you analyzed the requirements and the reasons why one would join the C-TPAT program, which was launched on April 16, 2002 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("CBP"), a division of the Department of Homeland Security, and compared it to today's program, you would notice how much it has evolved. We have noticed that since many cincinnati black and red hats companies are now starting to make C-TPAT membership a requirement, membership by the vendor and the cincinnati black and red hats service provider is becoming the norm rather than the exception. Therefore, not only are companies which are eligible to join the C-TPAT program are becoming members, but companies that are required to be C-TPAT compliant and who are presently not eligible to join the C-TPAT program are preparing the same security profiles.


The C-TPAT Security Profile is a synopsis of various policies, procedures and controls the company has regarding; the selection of import-supply-chain business partners, hiring practices, information technology (computers), physical security, etc. The Security Profile is, in essence, a company's application to the C-TPAT program.

Norman Jaspan Associates ("NJA") commences the C-TPAT application process by providing our clients who are joining the C-TPAT program with customized security questionnaires, which they send to their import supply-chain business partners (foreign manufacturers/suppliers, transportation service providers, customs brokers, etc.). The completed questionnaires are then reviewed and recommendations are made where appropriate. Additionally, NJA visits our clients' domestic facilities and conducts a hands-on C-TPAT vulnerability assessment, documenting what written policies, procedures and controls need to be instituted or modified. NJA then prepares the C-TPAT Security Profile.

In addition, NJA updates our clients' C-TPAT Security Profile for the internet portal, annual assessment and validation phase (tier levels 2 & 3), and prepares our clients for the CBP validation visit.

Companies eligible to join the C-TPAT program
1. cincinnati black and red hats U.S. Importers of record
Companies in the U.S. that are either the importer of record and/or the consignee, regardless of the cargo's value or the type of cargo (raw materials, finished product, samples, returns, public relations or packing materials).

2 U.S./Canada Highway Carriers
The C-TPAT program is a requirement for the FAST (Free And Secure Trade) program. The FAST program is a bilateral initiative between the United States and Canada designed to ensure security and safety. Two of the benefits are: A) Using dedicated lanes for greater speed and efficiency in the clearance of FAST transborder shipments and B) reducing the number of examinations. Canadian Highway Carriers can join the C-TPAT program if:

The carrier is an active U.S. /Canadian Highway Carrier that transports cargo that is being imported into the United States; and

They have a business office staffed in the U.S. or Canada; and

They have an active U.S. National Motor Freight Traffic Association issued Standard Carrier Alpha Code in format.

3 U.S./Mexico Highway Carriers