Announcing Trade Tech's Full-Service 10+2 Solution

Trade Tech announces the creation of its full-service 10+2 solution for customs house brokers. The service, a combination of Trade Tech's robust software platform for creating automatic importer security filings for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and a virtual back office of personnel located in major port cities around the world, will enable you to file all required Customs documents well in advance of the filing deadlines and to deal with hold messages on a timely basis so as not to delay shipment departures from foreign ports.

Read more about the 10+2 regulation below, and download the press release below for more information on Trade Tech's full-service capability for making your business 10+2 compliant before the mandatory filing regulations go into effect in January 2010.

Trade Tech Press Release on Full-Service 10+2 Solution


Background on 10+2: The New U.S. Importer Security Filing Requirements

In October 2006, the U.S. Congress enacted the SAFE Port Act. The law requires Customs to collect more information about import shipments than is included with the current Advance Manifest System (AMS). Customs now requires ocean shipment details to be filed 24 hours in advance of vessel loading.

Trade Tech has been active with U.S. Customs groups and industry representatives to finalize the rules and systems that Customs is using to support the new 10+2/ISF Rules.

"10+2" refers to two new sets of data that will be required for goods setting sail for U.S. ports: ten elements prior to sailing and two elements within 48 hours after vessel departure from the last foreign port. 

Required twenty-four hours before sailing:
  • Manufacturer name and address
  • Seller name and address
  • Consolidator name and address
  • Container stuffing location
  • Buyer name and address
  • Delivery Location
  • Importer Number
  • Consignee Number
  • Country of Origin
  • Harmonized Tariff Schedule Number
Required within 48 hours of vessel departure from the last foreign port:
  • Vessel Stowe Plan
  • Container Status
Getting Started

Contact us for more information on our 10+2/ISF filing service.

Additional Resources

Trade Tech's 2008 10+2 White Paper (PDF)
Cargo Security Act (see Section 203/Automated Targeting System)
President's Statement upon siging HR 4954
January 2, 2008 Federal Register Notice (PDF)
10+2 Feasibility Report (PDF)
CBP Outlines Requirements (PDF)
COAC Notes on 10+2 (PDF)