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C-TPAT Achievements

C-TPAT Achievements

10-01-2008

(As of October 2008)

8,707 - Certified Partners to current date:

  • 7,948 - Certified Partners at the end of 2007
  • 759 - Increase in membership in 2008

7 - Field Offices; Current staffing level is 195

9,690 - Total Validations Completed

  • 7,797 - Initial Validations Completed
  • 1,893 - Re-Validations Completed

Number of completed validations by year:

  • 2003 / 137-Validations
  • 2004 / 294 –Validations
  • 2005 / 1,109-Validations
  • 2006 / 2,253-Initial Validations / 16-Revalidations / 2,269-Total Validations in 2006
  • 2007 / 2,516-Initial Validations / 575-Revalidations / 3,091-Total Validations in 2007
  • 2008 / 1,488-Initial Validations / 1,302-Revalidations / 2,790-Total Validations in 2008

Importer – 4,099
Carriers – 2,333
Brokers – 758
Foreign Manufacturers – 769
Consolidators – 694
Marine Port Authorities and Terminal Operators – 54

415 - Total suspensions (213 Highway Carriers)
279 - Total removals (119 Highway Carriers)

Internationalization Efforts:

  • 3 - Mutual Recognition Arrangements: New Zealand, Canada, Jordan
  • 4 - Mutual Recognition Projects:  Australia, European Union, Japan, Singapore
  • 4 - Technical Assistance Projects:  Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Guatemala
  • 3 - Capacity Building Training Programs: Ghana, Brazil, Kenya

Security Criteria Implemented:

  • 10 - Business Entity Types:  Importers, Sea Carriers, Highway Carriers. Rail Carriers, Foreign Manufacturers, Customs Brokers, Mexico Long Haul Highway Carrier , Port Authorities/Terminal Operators, Air Carriers, Consolidators

Tiered Benefits Structure – commensurate with security enhancements. Best Practices Catalog.

  • 271 - Tier 3 Importers

On a typical day, CBP…

Processes:

  • 1.13 million passengers
  • 70,200 truck, rail, and sea containers
  • 2,639 aircraft
  • 304,000 vehicles
  • Arrests 2,472 people

As a result:

  • Intercepts 84 fraudulent documents
  • Intercepts 1 traveler for terrorism/national security reasons
  • Seize:
    • 7,388 pounds of narcotics
    • $652,603 in restricted/prohibited goods
    • $187,176 in undeclared or illicit currency
    • 4,296 prohibited meat or plant material including 164 pests

    CBP statistician’s tallies for the fiscal year 2008 have recently completed, and it is interesting what was accomplished last year.

    • CBP apprehended over 1 million people at their ports of entry and between them.
    • CBP seized just less than 3 million pounds of narcotics.
    • CBP apprehended more than 200 people with serious criminal records including for murder, rape and child molestation.
    • CBP helped expand our work force by 11 percent, including 17 percent more Border Patrol agents, 7 percent more CBP officers and 5 percent more agriculture specialists.
    • CBP continued to safeguard commercial trade through enhanced enforcement actions, which grew to more than 19,000 seizures valued at $351 million.
    • CBP accomplished all this despite increasingly difficult and dangerous conditions as 1,413 incidents of border violence were recorded.