CTPAT and Trade Compliance Portals to Enter Data Freeze During September
The Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) and the Trade Compliance (TC) Program portals will go into a data freeze window Sept. 16-30, with no access to either portal during this time, CBP said in a CTPAT update Aug. 9.
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A 30-day extension will be granted one anyone with deadlines during September or October, including for security profiles and Annual Notification Letters (ANLs). CBP recommends partners "remain up to date" on the CTPAT and Trade Compliance accounts before the data freeze, and that partners review users that have account access. CTPAT has noticed an increase in "email failures" during notifications from users who "no longer have active partner company emails" but are still listed as users, CBP said.
The freeze is needed for the "Next Generation Portals," when CBP will move the data from the 2.0 to the 3.0 portals, the update said. "During this time, the data needs to be 'frozen' so that no data inconsistencies occur between the two systems," the update said. New links to the portals will be emailed to "all active users" once the migration is completed and the links will be posted to the CBP website, the update said.