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title: 3PLs Close to Getting Key Customs Designation for Cross-Border Trade
description: Bill setting up pilot for C-TPAT program passes House and Senate committees
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# [3PLs Close to Getting Key Customs Designation for Cross-Border Trade](https://blog.aiag.org/3pls-close-to-getting-key-customs-designation-for-cross-border-trade)

 Written by [John Kingston, FreightWaves](https://blog.aiag.org/author/john-kingston-freightwaves) | Jun 8, 2022 6:35:19 PM

SAN DIEGO — A rare Senate and House bipartisan agreement on an issue — the C-TPAT Pilot Program Act of 2022 — is being celebrated by the Transportation Intermediates Association as a major victory for the brokerage sector.

In her state of the industry address here to kick off the group’s first in-person convention since 2019, TIA President Anne Reinke touted the progress of the legislation and placed it No. 1 on her list of the organization’s achievements.

C-TPAT, or Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, serves as sort of a TSA Pre-Check for freight moving across international borders. Carriers and shippers that receive that designation can move more quickly across international lines due to their classification under C-TPAT.

But brokers have not been able to get C-TPAT designation. And that has been a significant problem for 3PLs that regularly engage in cross-border activity.

Chris Burroughs, TIA’s vice president of government affairs, said in an interview at the TIA meeting that not being part of the program has put brokers “at a pretty large competitive disadvantage.”

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