# BRD-037 — Low-Volume Standard is not available to a non-US brand that needs vetting

> A non-US brand cannot stay on the Low-Volume Standard class once additional vetting is required of it.

- **Rule ID:** BRD-037
- **Layer:** Brand (`BRAND`)
- **Checks:** `brand.country + brand class`
- **Severity:** MEDIUM — Usually survives review, but lowers your trust score or invites manual review.
- **When it bites:** Gates approval — get this wrong and registration is refused
- **How it is detected:** Deterministic (settled in code from the submitted values)
- **Fix type:** Fix the field — a better value in the form clears it
- **Required by:** HighLevel
- **Applies:** Applies to every 10DLC registration.
- **Canonical URL:** https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-037/

## Why this rule exists

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.

## How to fix it

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 of a compliant value

```text
brand_class: STANDARD · country: GB — rather than LOW_VOLUME_STANDARD
```