---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 970"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "970"
heading: "Noncontainerized cargo"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/970"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Security and Accountability for Every Port"
  - "Subchapter II — Security of the International Supply Chain"
  - "Part B — Customs–Trade Partnership Against Terrorism"
---

# §970. Noncontainerized cargo


The [Secretary](/usc/6/901.md?p=15), acting through the [Commissioner](/usc/6/901.md?p=4), shall consider the potential for participation in C–TPAT by importers of noncontainerized cargoes that otherwise meet the requirements under this part.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–347, title II, § 220, Oct. 13, 2006, 120 Stat. 1914.)