Shippers Ask For More Clarity on 10+2 Rule

(Logistics Management – Patrick Burnson)

While the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is not enforcing the 10+2 Rule during the first year of implementation, shippers are saying that the agency has left key some questions unanswered.

“We still do not know how many filings must be made within a ‘scope-of-field,’” said Beth Peterson, a president of BPE, a global trade consultancy in San Francisco. “Furthermore, the CBP is now telling us that it is raising the bar on best practices.”

When it was first published two years ago, the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Best Practices Catalog represented an effort to provide members with current information regarding highly effective cargo security practices identified while conducting validations.

Since then C-TPAT has conducted more than 8000 validations and revalidations throughout the world.

But according to Peterson, the rules have changed.

“There still is no information on how the Importer Security Filing (ISF) is to be transmitted,” she said. “As a result, a lot of shippers are still out of compliance.” Read more here.