Import Safety PTI
(12/09/2009)The priority mission of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is to prevent terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the United States while facilitating the flow of legitimate trade and travel. To support this mission, the Import Safety Priority Trade Issue is designed to ensure that unsafe products do not enter the commerce of the United States by working collaboratively and collectively with other government agencies, other foreign governments and the trade to better define and assess risk through increased automation and the sharing of information to encourage greater use of partnership and best practices to protect the U.S. consumer.The key participants in the import safety trade strategy include all parties within the production and supply chain, domestic and foreign governments and the international trade community, involved in the product lifecycle. The Import Safety Priority Trade Issue (PTI) will focus on safeguarding the public health and safety from unsafe importations. This will be accomplished through more refined risk analysis; further developments in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), enhanced targeting and tracking, improved inter-agency and intra-agency communication and coordination as well as continued partnerships with the trade community. As CBP and our other agency and trade partners work with this initiative, the overall effect will allow for the continued flow of legitimate trade in products that safer and healthier.
( CBP Import Safety and Other Government Agencies Initiatives )
