{
  "id": "BRD-037",
  "slug": "brd-037",
  "title": "Low-Volume Standard is not available to a non-US brand that needs vetting",
  "statement": "A non-US brand cannot stay on the Low-Volume Standard class once additional vetting is required of it.",
  "rationale": "Low-Volume Standard is the cheap class that skips external vetting, and a foreign brand is exactly the case where vetting cannot be skipped. Choosing it is rational — the volumes are genuinely low — and it produces a registration that can never complete, because the class forbids the step the brand needs.",
  "layer": "BRAND",
  "layerSlug": "brand",
  "object": "brand.country + brand class",
  "severity": "MEDIUM",
  "detectability": [
    "DETERMINISTIC"
  ],
  "failureClass": "RETRY_FIELD",
  "authorities": [
    "HighLevel"
  ],
  "applicabilityText": "Applies to every 10DLC registration.",
  "universal": true,
  "remediation": "Register the non-US brand as Standard and order the external vet it will need. The throughput starts lower than a vetted US brand and rises once the vet completes. Done when the brand class is STANDARD rather than LOW_VOLUME_STANDARD.",
  "example": "brand_class: STANDARD · country: GB — rather than LOW_VOLUME_STANDARD",
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": true,
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-037/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-037.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}