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ARTICLE · 06 APRIL 2004

Streamlining Federal Security Programs: How Customs Bundles Them Together

Now that you've had a three-month dose of security program substance, it's time to take a look at how the Bureau of Customs and Border Patrol (CBP or, here, Customs) plans to implement the CT-PAT program, the Container Security Initiative, the 24-Hour Advance Vessel Manifest Rule, and related concepts. Briefly, the feds will use hi-tech data exchange and storage systems implemented by newly formed Customs sub-departments, and reconstitute interrelated functions performed by Department of

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Steven Block
Steven Block

Originally published March, 2004

Reprinted with permission from Marine Digest and Transportation News

(This is the fourth of a four-part Legal Lookout series addressing federal security regulations and programs)

Now that you've had a three-month dose of security program substance, it's time to take a look at how the Bureau of Customs and Border Patrol (CBP or, here, Customs) plans to implement the CT-PAT program, the Container Security Initiative, the 24-Hour Advance Vessel Manifest Rule, and related concepts. Briefly, the feds will use hi-tech data exchange and storage systems implemented by newly formed Customs sub-departments, and reconstitute interrelated functions performed by Department of Homeland Security agencies to guide America's international trade industry into an era of security. Warning: this stuff isn't for the acronymophobe.

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