U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced plans to begin an 18-month test, in collaboration with the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Food and Drug Administration, of a trusted trader program that will unify the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism and the Importer Self-Assessment program.
Applications to participate in this test may be submitted beginning June 16 and the selection of initial participants will begin no later than July 16. The test will be limited to fewer than ten participants, including one or more importers currently participating in C-TPAT, one or more importers not currently participating in any CBP partnership program, and one or two participants who have imports monitored by CPSC and FDA. The test is not open to current ISA partners at this time.
This has been excerpted from a 16 June 2014 issue of the Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg Trade Report and is available in its entirety at:
http://www.strtrade.com/news-publications-trusted-trader-CTPAT-importer-self-assessment-061614.html