CBP says blank templates are not CTPAT evidence: how are you getting container checklists out of the factory?

From the other side of the dock: when a box loads here in Taipei, the crew looks it over, but nobody writes it down unless a buyer asked before the truck came. Asking at validation means rebuilding a morning from months ago, and I would not trust that sheet either.

The easy version for a small supplier is a one-page form with the booking, returned with the packing list. CBP's sample checklist says the completed sheet belongs with the shipping documents anyway, and phone photos of the seal going on cost us nothing.

CBP also publishes its foreign manufacturer criteria in Traditional Chinese, which my crew would read. Would your validator take a photo of a handwritten sheet?

Gary, our containers are stuffed here, after the boards are mounted and tested. I am that overseas office.

The honest part is cost. A request inside a step the crew already stops for gets done at the time. One that opens a second document gets written on Friday from the loading log and memory. That sheet is dated, signed and useless to you.

Container number, seal number and time are already written by the man who closes the door. The buyers who get a true sheet per container had the inspection lines added to that record, and asked in the shipping instruction, not through sales.

Our last auditor took three container numbers off a shipment list and wanted those three sheets. Record every box, but ask that the file be found by container number. I cannot speak to the criteria.