Also worth mentioning are the voluntary Importer
Self Assessment programme, in place since June
2002, which provides the opportunity for interested
importers who are participating members of C-TPAT
to assume responsibility for monitoring their own
compliance in exchange for benefits;79 the recent
Trusted Trader programme, already in the test
phase, which aims to join and unify the existing
C-TPAT and Importer Self Assessment programmes
to integrate and streamline the processes of supply
chain security and trade compliance within one
partnership programme