Manufacturers Welcome New 10+2 Rule

(Traffic World Online – Thomas L. Gallagher)

The National Association of Manufacturers welcomed changes in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s proposed 10+2 rule for cargo filing security.

Ten months after original publication of the proposal, the updated rule was approved November 6 by the White House Office of Management and Budget and now awaits Congressional acceptance likely before the end of the month.

The filing rule, popularly known as ‘10+2,’ will require importers and ocean carriers to provide 12 additional data elements that do not appear on the manifest. During the agency’s annual trade symposium in October, Deputy Commissioner Jayson Ahern said that the 10+2 data was fundamental to Customs’ supply-chain security strategy.

While it is much improved, according to NAM, “work still has to be done to create a final rule that works for both national security and U.S. manufacturers.”

“The 10+2 rule, as originally drafted, would have cost U.S. manufacturers as much as $20 billion annually, created huge delays and missed shipments in the global supply chain, risked shutting down U.S. production lines and actually worsened security by increasing the amount of time containers sat around available for tampering at foreign ports,” said NAM President John Engler. Read the rest here