Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism sets parameters for how member companies should protect cargo they import from being infiltrated by terrorists. The guidelines start with the kind of fence that surrounds a company’s manufacturing facility and extend far out into the supply chain. C-TPAT is a voluntary program, for large companies that want their goods to get into the U.S. quickly, joining is not really an option. Port of Long Beach port official: “Two dollars a day, a strike at a dockworkers’ strike in late 2002, brought cargo to grinding halt””]
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