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Business Alliance for Secure Commerce (BASC) (U.S.)

image located by Esteban Rivera, 13 November 2025
Source: https://wbasco.org/

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BASC Panama

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BASC – Business Alliance for Secure Commerce – is an international business alliance that first started as an anti-smuggling alliance in 1996 with 7 companies and one maritime terminal (port) in order to complement and strengthen the Carrier Initiative Program (CIP) and Land Border Initiative Program (LBCIP). It promotes secure trade in cooperation with governments and international organizations. The Business Alliance for Secure Commerce seeks to implement a Security and Control Management System for the continuous improvement of security standards applied by companies in order to facilitate and expedite international trade by partnering with governments, authorities, and companies worldwide, creating a comprehensive security culture and strengthening the Public-Private Partnership. The BASC management system promotes secure international trade through the development and implementation of preventive actions aimed at preventing the smuggling of goods, customs fraud, counterfeiting, intellectual property crimes, narcotics, weapons trafficking, money laundering, terrorist financing, and other crimes related to illicit trade.

In November 2001 the CTPAT (Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism) program was established to enhance United States border security via strengthening international supply chains and in 2002 the U.S. Customs passed the "BASC" baton to the private sector where it was formally established as a nonprofit organization named the World BASC Organization (WBO). The World BASC Organization, WBO was then incorporated in Delaware as a non-profit organization with main office in Miami.

The new and current logo appeared in 2005.

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. Any company can become BASC Certified Company. The program works with Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama, Peru and United States.

Sources:
https://www.bascusa.com/cbp-ctpat-en/cbp-basc-cooperation
https://wbasco.org/es/quienes-somos/historia
https://bti.egr.uh.edu/research/ctpat-project
https://www.linkedin.com/company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Alliance_for_Secure_Commerce

The font types used are Arial and Helvetica Neue.

The logo and its colors are:
Gradient
C=100 M= 85 Y= 0 K= 0
C= 90 M= 20 Y= 0 K= 0
C= 8.5 M= 2.5 Y= 2 K= 0

R= 17 G= 25 B=135
R= 30 G= 136 B=188
R= 233 G= 241 B=242

Strong Blue
C=100 M= 85 Y= 0 K= 0
R= 17 G= 25 B=135

White
C= 0 M= 0 Y= 0 K= 0
R= 255 G= 255 B=255

Black
C= 0 M= 0 Y= 0 K=10 0
R= 0 G= 0 B= 0

The flag is a blue horizontal background with in the middle, and It seems that each country's office has its own flag, sometimes with multiple local offices having presence in each country.
Source: https://web.bascbogota.com/archivos/pdf/Manual_de_Imagen_Empresas.pdf

Esteban Rivera, 13 November 2025

Business Alliance for Secure Commerce (BASC) (U.S.)

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BASC Panama

BASC Dominican Republic