Customs Partnerships – A Focus On Container Security

Christine BradleyCanada Border Services Agency (CBSA)Canadian High Commission

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Program Overview

Overview: CBSA Risk Management & Enforcement Marine Security Container Security Initiative (CSI) Best Practices: Customs Cooperation &

Partnerships Discussion & Questions

Border Security: Canada

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Immigration Intelligence, Enforcement and Ports of

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at Ports of Entry

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INTEGRATES

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

Canadian Security

Intelligence Service (CSIS)

Correctional Service of Canada

(CSC)

Parole Board of Canada

Canada Border

Services Agency (CBSA)

Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)

The Canada Border Services Agency:

Established December 2003 – part of the Public Safety Canada portfolio bringing together security, law enforcement, corrections and border agencies

Provides integrated border management, bringing together functions previously spread among 3 organizations (Canada Customs, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and Canadian Food Inspection Agency)

Administers about 90 Acts & Regulations Approximately 12,400 employees serving 200,000 commercial

importers and exporters and approximately 95 million travellers each year

Operates at over 1,200 points of service across Canada and 39 locations abroad

CBSA: Enforcement Mandate

Mandate: the Agency is responsible for providing integrated border services that support national security and public safety priorities and

facilitate the free flow of persons and goods, including animals and plants, that meet all of the requirements under the program legislation.

The CBSA is also mandated to prevent the admission into Canada of persons involved in war crimes or crimes against humanity, to assist in combating money laundering, and to conduct the detention and removal from Canada of inadmissible persons

To fulfill its mandate, the CBSA works in partnership with business, with other Government of Canada departments and agencies, and with the governments of other countries

Enforcement priorities:• Counter-terrorism• Illegal migration/human trafficking/human smuggling• Illegal trade of weapons, illicit narcotics, contraband tobacco, proceeds of crime/money laundering• Precursor chemicals• Strategic Export Control• Child pornography/Obscenity/ Hate Propaganda

CBSA: Enforcement & Risk Management at the Border

BORDER MANAGEMENT

RISK ASSESSMENT & DETECTION

Pre-approval to facilitate

low risk

Advance information –

people & goods

Turning information into

intelligence

CBSA’s Marine Security Regime

• The CBSA has developed an integrated marine supply chain security regime consistent with the World Customs Organisation (WCO) standards.

Advance Commercial Information (ACI) Program – marine cargo and conveyance data transmitted electronically to the CBSA 24 hours prior to loading at the foreign port.

TITAN – Automated risk assessment system.

National Risk Assessment Centre – 7/24 targeting centre for the identification of high-risk shipments.

Container Security Initiative - Cooperative arrangements with international partners for marine security including the identification of high-risk shipments for outbound inspections.

Advance Electronic Data

Automated Risk Assessment

Centralized Targeting

Cooperation on Outbound Inspections

CBSA’s Container Security Initiative

Increasing marine security and facilitating trade through

cooperation with foreign partners

The Container Security Initiative (CSI) is a multinational initiative that protects the main method of global trade — containerized shipping — from being exploited or disrupted by terrorists. It is designed to safeguard global marine trade while enabling legitimate cargo containers to move faster and more efficiently through the supply chain to seaports worldwide

CSI : Timeline

2002 Joint Targeting Initiative

2005 US CBP & CBSA sign CSI Partnership Arrangement

Nov 2007 CBSA CSI Agreement with Panama

June 2006 CBSA CSI Agreement with South Africa

June 2008 CBSA Reciprocal Agreement with Japan

9 / 11US CBP: CSI Operations in 58 ports

How CSI Works

The CBSA and partner Customs organizations work closely together to achieve the following:

Ensuring compliance and an understanding of customs programs;

Harmonizing customs requirements and processes;

Detecting, identifying and intercepting high-risk containers through the sharing of information and knowledge; and

Ensuring the security of the global supply chain and the smooth, expedited flow of legitimate trade.

CSI : Key Principles

Cooperation Risk assessment done in cooperation (Canada & CSI partners) Share information / knowledge on: cargo, trade community, general security, Customs Best Practices Joint enforcement operations / training initiatives

Security Partnership enhances security through a multi-layered approach — compliance, harmonization and cooperation — improving the effectiveness of each partner’s customs processes and relationship with trade chain partners

Expedited flow Benefits: the streamlined flow of legitimate container traffic and enhanced efficiency Cooperative security efforts increase efficiency in the identification of high-risk shipments at points of loading and ensure the container’s unimpeded intermodal movement

Best Practices: Integration

“Integrated Border Management” coordination and cooperation

among all the relevant authorities and agencies involved in border security and trade facilitation to establish effective, efficient and integrated border management systems, in order to reach the

common goal of open, but controlled and secure borders

Best Practices: Multiple Borders

Multiple Borders Approach: screen & target at multiple points along way

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Intelligence-led decision making

Advance information

High risk: travellers & contraband

FOCUS

Best Practices: Cooperation

Enhanced cooperation leads to greater knowledge and awareness of legitimate trade, enabling partners to focus on identifying high-risk shipments and/or people.

Best Practices: Coordination

Globalization: Border management increasingly complex

Customs Administrations must adapt to international trends: International tradeSecurity & SafetyEmergence of transnational crime networksGrowing concerns regarding public health and the environment Illegal migration

Crime is trans-national therefore Customs / LEAs also have to coordinate trans-nationally

Key principles:

COOPERATION, COORDINATION, EFFICIENCY, FLEXIBILTY RESPONSIVENESS

Thank You

Questions?Christine Bradley

Container Security Initiative – South Africa

Canada Border Services Agency

Christine.Bradley@international.gc.ca

Tel. +27 82 772 6492