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title: CTPAT Key Terms | AIAG
description: Use these key terms to assist in your understanding of C-TPAT as you go through the certification process.
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# CTPAT KEY TERMS

### Download the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) Key Terms Glossary

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**Use these key terms to assist in your understanding of CTPAT as you go through the certification process.**

In order to be CTPAT certified or compliant, a supply chain partner must meet the minimum security requirements as defined by CBP (US Customs and Border Protection) by answering a set of questions. The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), in collaboration with several member companies, developed a common system to be used by automotive importers and their supply chain partners’ suppliers to comply with CTPAT requirements.

Some benefits of a common CTPAT questionnaire & corrective actions system include:

- Importers and their supply chain business partners have a common process to request, complete, and evaluate supply chain security compliance.
- Named as Best Practice by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
- New Minimum-Security Criteria published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection is developed by AIAG into common partner type questionnaires, which are reviewed and approved by several importers.
- Reporting capability can be used when conducting supplier security validations and as material supplied to CBP to provide supporting supply chain security documentation.
- Suppliers that have multiple importers as customers need only answer one questionnaire.
- Threat Assessment information is available for all countries and can be evaluated by specific trade lanes.
- And much more!

**Fill out the form on this page and get your helpful list of key CTPAT terms today! **

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