U.S. Customs Posts Materials From Next Week's Customs Symposium

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted on its website some of the materials that we will be presented during n the breakout sessions at next week's 2009 Trade Symposium.

Among the materials now available for review include information on C-TPAT, antidumping and countervailing duty functionality in ACE, post entry summary corrections in ACE and customs rulings.

For those that cannot attend the sold-out program in person, CBP will be presenting a live webcast of many of the sessions from the Trade Symposium. To view the presentations and for more details on the webcast click here.

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C-TPAT: 2008 - A Year in Review

U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently published the following Year in Review of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Program (C-TPAT) for 2008:

C-TPAT 2008 Year in Review

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Contraband Found by CBP in Entry Involving C-TPAT Participants

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sent a notice yesterday to all participants in the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program advising that CBP officers recently discovered 2,822 pounds of marijuana in a shipment from Mexico involving participants in the C-TPAT program.

According to CBP, officers at the Nogales, Arizona port of entry became suspicious of a truck carrying wiring harnesses from Mexico as it attempted to make entry into the U.S. and decided to send the shipment for an X-ray inspection to determine if contraband was hidden in the trailer. Before the tractor and trailer could even make it to the X-ray unit for inspection, one of the CBP narcotics detection dogs alerted to the presence of narcotics in the trailer.

The image from the X-ray inspection confirmed the presence of narcotics hidden in the shipment. Upon further examination, 110 packages of marijuana with a street value of over $4.5 million were discovered. The driver was arrested and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for further investigation and the narcotics, tractor and trailer were seized by CBP.

In its notice, CBP stated that "trust was betrayed" since the companies transporting and receiving this shipment were trusted participants in the C-TPAT program, which is intended to lead to a reduction in the number of random examinations of low risk shipments.

As a result of this seizure, the companies' C-TPAT privileges have been suspended until CBP can further investigate the events that transpired.

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