CBP Officials Discuss Updating, Combining Trusted Trader Programs

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is exploring ways to attract more membership to its trusted trader programs and is looking at a more “holistic approach” that would combine for importers the agency’s Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) and the Importer Self Assessment (ISA), a CBP official said Nov. 28.

Dan Baldwin, executive director of cargo and conveyance security, CBP Office of Field Operations, urged the trade community to provide input. Baldwin, who made his comments on the second day of CBP’s annual East Coast Trade symposium, also stressed the need to work with other government agencies that have “hold” authority ...