C-TPAT Status Verification Interface Now Found on C-TPAT Security Link Portal
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site an updated version of its overview of the Customs - Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Status Verification Interface (SVI), in order to inform certified C-TPAT members that access to the C-TPAT SVI is now found in the C-TPAT Security Link Portal.
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CBP states that the SVI allows consenting certified C-TPAT partners to verify the participation status of other consenting certified C-TPAT partners.
CBP refers to SVI participants as SVIPs. According to the overview, to qualify as a SVIP, participants must have:
access to the internet C-TPAT Security Link Portal;
achieved certification status as a C-TPAT participants;
generated an SVI alpha-numeric status identification number (ID) in the C-TPAT Security Link Portal;
accepted the terms of the electronic C-TPAT Consent to Use Company Name form found in the C-TPAT Security Link Portal.
C-TPAT SVI via Portal Overview (undated) available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/commercial_enforcement/ctpat/svi/sviOverview.xml
C-TPAT SVI via Portal FAQs (undated), available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/commercial_enforcement/ctpat/svi/sviFAQ.ctt/sviFAQ.doc
Instructions for C-TPAT Security Link Portal Status Verification (undated), available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/commercial_enforcement/ctpat/svi/instructions_svi.ctt/instructions_svi.ppt