Business Alliance for Secure Commerce
The Business Alliance for Secure Commerce (BASC) is an international business alliance, created to promote secure international trade in cooperation with governments and international organizations.
The current director of BASC is Fermín Cuza.
History
BASC, which initially stood for Business Anti Smuggling Coalition, was created by Mr. Fermin Cuza in 1996, as a voluntary cooperation program between the private sector and the United States Customs Administration, in order to avoid using legal trade for smuggling and drug trafficking. That same year a company based in Cartagena was the first one in South America to adopt the BASC program and was chosen by the US Customs to develop the BASC pilot plan. Thanks to the results, the drive of local entrepreneurs who believed in this initiative, the support for governments and customs authorities in the region, and of course, our employee’s commitment, the program had a progressive expansion in Latin America.
Given this growth and with the purpose of having an international entity to ensure the global functioning and credibility of the program, the World BASC Organization -WBO-was created in 2002 in the state of Department: Division of Corporations -USA-, as a nonprofit organization, with the mission to facilitate and speed up international trade, by establishing global security standards and procedures to the logistic trade chain with the support of custom entities and government authorities.
Given this growth and with the purpose of having an international entity to ensure the global functioning and credibility of the program, the World BASC Organization -WBO-was created in 2002 in the state of Delaware -USA-, as a nonprofit organization, with the mission to facilitate and speed up international trade, by establishing global security standards and procedures to the logistic trade chain with the support of custom entities and government authorities.
Standards & Requirements
BASC standards meet the requirements of other recognized initiatives; among them are the World Customs Organization and the C-TPAT, a US Custom program considered today as the largest authorized economic operator (AEO) in the world. Therefore we have been invited to participate as observers at the C-TPAT validations of the United States Customs.
Background Information Positive Aspects
The world BASC is a recognized Industry Partnership Program with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and is recognized by several international Customs Organizations.
The program is working in the following countries: Colombia Ecuador Peru Panama Argentina Chile
Any company can become BASC Certified Company. (I don't know if this is a good thing)
Background Information Negative Aspects
After all the World BASC Organization, Inc. from its beginnings has a questionable method of working. Crating a US base corporation for credibility, but with no actual offices in the US, neither licensing nor commercial insurance crates more questions about its international infrastructure.
It’s a known fact that if you have a World BASC Certificate you are not guaranteed, participation in the C-TPAT program, why is that.
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