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Import Strategies in Maintaining a “Compliant and Secure” Inbound Supply Chain
It is critical for importers to maintain compliant inbound supply chains. Since 9/11, it has been made clear that importers who are forever noncom-pliant will sacrifice their privileges to import. This chapter views the corporate strategies to balance the need to maintain compliant supply chains with competitive landed model costing.
INTERNAL COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT AND INTERNAL AUDIT
There is an expectation of CBP that companies can self-regulate their import responsibilities, internally, with assistance from an external qualified third party, or both.
Most companies are not capable of performing a self-audit on their own import/export operations and logistics divisions. ...
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