Title: On a Typical Day at CBP...
1On a Typical Day at CBP...
- The legacy Customs Service processes
- Over 1.1 million passengers
- 2,459 aircraft
- 57,006 trucks/containers
- Effects the following enforcement actions
- 64 arrests
- 11 currency seizures
- And seizes the following amounts
- 4,639 pounds of narcotics
- 315,973 in conveyances
- Over 23,083 in arms and ammunition
- The legacy INS, while processing over 1.1M
passengers, apprehends - 2050 aliens attempting illegal entry
- 48 criminal aliens
- 85 aliens being smuggled
- The legacy Border Patrol
- Apprehends 2,617 individuals
- Seizes 3,318 pounds of marijuana and 40 pounds of
cocaine
- 323,622 vehicles
- 580 vessels
- 67,638 entries
- 118 narcotics seizures
- 116 other seizures
- 715,652 in currency
- 467,118 in merchandise
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- 2050 false documents
- 11 drug smugglers
Conveyances, ammunition, commercial
merchandise, real estate, firearms and weapons,
child pornography
2Components of a Smart Border
CBP uses automated targeting systems to identify
potentially high-risk shipments based on advance
electronic information.
- A smart border increases security while
facilitating the movement of legitimate trade and
travelers.
VACIS technology scans cargo at a port of entry
3Components of a Smart Border (cont.)
- Advance electronic information
- Automated targeting tools
- Identify and facilitate low-risk travelers and
shipments - Inspection technology
- Industry partnerships
- Training
- Push security beyond our borders
4Smart Border Programs
- Commercial
- National Targeting
- 24 Hour Rule
- Container Security Initiative (CSI)
- Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism
(CTPAT) - Free and Secure Trade (FAST)
- Traveler
- APIS/PNR
- NEXUS
- NEXUS Air
5National Targeting Examining the Right
Containers (cont.)
Illegal drugs located in lead-shielded
compartments
Rail VACIS in Laredo, Texas reveals the smuggling
of people
6The 24 Hour Rule
- Requires sea carriers or automated
non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs) to
provide CBP with detailed and accurate manifest
data on shipments destined for the U.S. 24 hours
prior to lading on a vessel destined for the U.S.
Article from American Shipper March 2003
7Container Security Initiative (CSI)
- Container transport facts
- 90 of worlds cargo moves by container
- Nearly half of all goods that enter the U.S.
arrive by oceangoing cargo containers - More than 6 million sea containers enter the U.S.
each year
8CSI (cont.)
Four core elements 1. Identify high-risk
containers 2. Pre-screen those containers
identified as high-risk before they are shipped
to U.S. ports
3. Use technology to quickly pre-screen high-risk
containers 4. Use smarter, more secure containers
9CSI Status and Next Steps
Phase 1 ? Algeciras, Spain ? Antwerp,
Belgium ? Bremerhaven, Germany ? Felixstowe,
U.K. ? Genoa, Italy ? Hamburg, Germany ?
Hong Kong ? Kobe, Japan ? La Spezia, Italy ?
Le Havre, France ? Nagoya, Japan ? Pusan, Korea
? Rotterdam, Netherlands ? Shanghai, China ?
Singapore ? Tokyo, Japan ? Yantian, China
? Yokohama, Japan Kaohsiung, Taiwan Laem
Chabang, Thailand
Phase 2 ? Gothenburg, Sweden ? Klang,
Malaysia ? Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia
? Agreement in place
10Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism
(CTPAT)
- CBP partners with trade to increase security and
facilitate trade - Trade members increase security of their supply
chains - CBP offers facilitation and other benefits in
return - Reduced examinations
- Special audit programs
- Account management
4/16/2002 - Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge
speaks at the announcement of CTPAT
11Free and Secure Trade (FAST)
- Part of Smart Border Declaration with Canada
- Harmonized land border release program
- Increased security and increased facilitation
- Driver, carrier, and importer vetted for security
- Expedited processing for FAST shipments
- Allows CBP to focus attention on higher-risk
shipments - Allows trade to keep moving in the event of
heightened alert levels
12FAST Status
- Announced by President and Prime Minister in
September 2002 - Operational at six largest land border commercial
crossings - Current enrollment
- 2850 registered drivers
- 174 carriers
- Projected enrollment by end of FY 2003
- 30,000 registered drivers
- 500 carriers
- Next steps
- March 2003 Systems enhancements put in place to
increase carrier participation - December 2003 Expansion to other high-volume
commercial crossings