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.
