On July 2007, President Bush established the Interagency Working Group on Import Safety, this group was responsible to oversee the strategies and methods that were being applied and should be applied in order to improve and promote import safety.

One year later, an “Action Plan Update” was released. The Interagency Action Plan consisted in 14 recommendations which are the following:

Safety Standards - Focuses on creating and strengthening standards, as well as complying with the Consumer Product Safety Act.

Certification - Allows companies to verify compliance, certification and cargo process and Importer Self Assessment- Product Safety Pilot (ISA-PS).

Good Importer Practices- Consists in conducting interagency collaboration and compliance with U.S. Statutes and Regulations.

Penalties -Tougher mitigation guidelines, non-compliant merchandise, and conduct outreach to field offices.

Foreign Collaboration and Capacity Building- Involving foreign partners to comply with supply chain security.

Common Mission - All parties involved in a Supply Chain should conduct uniform procedures such as interagency meetings, cross training, and communication.

Interoperability/ Information Gathering - Makes it easier for government and the trade community to work through automated systems: International Trade Data System, Automated Commercial Environment/Automated Commercial System.

New Science- Improve procedures in order to prevent any hazard throughout the supply chain.

Intellectual Property Protection- Data must remain as confidential as possible in order to be secure, for this reason IPP is very much enforced in all parties involved in a supply chain.

Recall- Federal State Rapid Response, respond rapidly after any problem has occurred.

Technology/Product Recalls - Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act Established Guidelines

Track and Trace - Being able to identify where cargo is at any point of the supply chain.

Some of Customs Border Protection’s roles in assuring Supply Chain Security would be: Containment at the ports of entry, Interdiction before cargo arrives as well as providing industry partnership benefits.