Automated Manifest Sytstem (AMS)


ABI Error Message

486: INVALID CONSIGNEE NUMBER FORMAT

CONSIGNEE NUMBERS TRANSMITTED TO ABI MUST BE IN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING FORMATS:  IRS OR EIN NUMBER: NN-NNNNNNNXX SSN: NNN-NN-NNNN CUSTOMS ASSIGNED NUMBER: YYDDPP-NNNNN N = NUMERIC CHARACTER; X = ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTER (EXCEPT FOR THE LETTERS "O", "I", "Z"); YY= LAST TWO DIGITS OF THE CALENDAR YEAR IN WHICH THE NUMBER WAS ASSIGNED. ANY OTHER FORMAT THAN ONE OF THE ABOVE WILL BE REJECTED WITH THIS MESSAGE.
VME: WHSE PERIOD EXPIRED

THE ENTRY DATE ON A WAREHOUSE WITHDRAWAL WAS MORE THAN FIVE YEARS FROM THE IMPORT DATE OF THE ORIGINAL WAREHOUSE ENTRY SUMMARY. 
VAW: PRELIMINARY STMT ALREADY PRODUCED

THIS ERROR MESSAGE OCCURS WHEN A FILER TRANSMITS AN ENTRY SUMMARY WITH A PAYMENT DUE DATE THAT IS THE SAME DATE AS THE CALENDAR DATE OF THE STATEMENT. FOR EXAMPLE, IF THE FILER SENDS, ON DECEMBER 28, AN ENTRY SUMMARY WITH A PAYMENT DUE OF DECEMBER 28, THIS MESSSAGE WILL RESULT, BECAUSE ALL THE PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS FOR DECEMBER 28 WILL HAVE BEEN PRODUCED PRIOR TO THE FILER TRANSMITTING HIS DATA. PAYMENT DUE DATES MUST ALWAYS BE AT LEAST ONE CALENDAR DAY IN THE FUTURE WHEN COMPARED TO THE TRANSMISSION DATE. THIS MESSAGE ALSO OCCURS IN THE NAFTA DUTY DEFERRAL MODULE. IT HAS OCCURRED WHEN A FILER SENT A PAYMENT INDICATOR OF '2' '3' OR '5' IN POSITION 59 OF THE D30 RECORD AND DID NOT SEND AT LEAST ONE D20 RECORD. THIS MESSAGE ALSO OCCURS FOR RECONCILIATION ('RA' TRANSACTION) IF THE FILER TRANSMITS A RECON SUMMARY WITH A PAYMENT DUE DATE AFTER STATEMENT GENERATION (SEE FIRST PARAGRAPH ABOVE).
355: ENTRY NOT FOUND

THIS MESSAGE OCCURS WHEN A FILER ATTEMPTS TO USE THE 'HP' STATEMENT ADD/DELETE TRANSACTION FOR AN ENTRY THAT IS NOT FOUND ELIGIBLE FOR AN 'HP'. AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE AN ENTRY THAT HAS BEEN ARCHIVED (ACS HISTORY FILE).
VOB: EXISTING ENTRY NOT DRAWBACK CLAIM

THIS MESSAGE RESULTS WHEN THE FILER TRANSMITS AN ADDITION/DELETION CODE OF EITHER 'A' OR 'D' AND THE CLAIM NUMBER USED ALREADY EXISTS IS ACS AND IS NOT A DRAWBACK CLAIM. IF THE ENTRY NUMBER HAS ALREADY BEEN USED AND IS NOT A DRAWBACK CLAIM, THE CLAIM AND DISKETTE WILL BE RETURNED FOR CORRECTION. ABI WILL REJECT THE TRANSMISSION.
440: TARIFF NBR INVALID FOR ENTRY TYPE

THIS MESSAGE WILL BE GENERATED WHEN A TARIFF NUMBER IS TRANSMITTED THAT DOES NOT PERTAIN TO THE ENTRY TYPE. MOST OFTEN, THE CAUSE OF THIS ERROR MESSAGE IS THE USE OF A NON-TIB TARIFF NUMBER WITH ENTRY TYPE 23.
8RA: CLAIM AMOUNT MUST BE < PD/LIQ AMT

THIS DRAWBACK MODULE ERROR MESSAGE WILL APPEAR FOR CLAIM TYPES '41' THRU '45' IF THE CLAIMED AMOUNT FOR AN IMPORT ENTRY OR CM EQUALS THE FULL AVAILABLE DUTY/TAX AMOUNT, SINCE THE MAXIMUM CLAIMED AMOUNT CANNOT EXCEED 99 PERCENT THEREOF. BECAUSE THERE ARE CERTAIN CONDITIONS WHERE THE CLAIMED DRAWBACK MAY BE EQUAL TO THE FULL DUTY/TAX PAID (E.G. MERCHANDISE EXPORTED FROM CUSTOMS CUSTODY ON WHICH DUTIES WERE ALREADY PAID), CUSTOMS ALLOWS FOR THIS THROUGH THE USE OF CLAIM '46' FOR CLAIMS COVERING THESE OBSCURE CONDITIONS.
AAU: ADD/CVD NOT REQUIRED

ONE OF THE CAUSES OF THIS REJECT IS WHEN A FILER SENDS ANTIDUMPING DUTY IN POSITIONS 33-42 OF THE 60 RECORD WHEN THERE IS A '0' IN THE BOND INDICATOR OF THE CASE DATABASE RECORD. 
BRW: EARLIEST SUMM DATE MUST = SPACES

RECONCILIATION: WHEN THE R10 ISSUE CODE = 'NF', THE R10 EARLIEST SUMMARY DATE MUST = SPACES. 
002: INVALID UNIT OF MEASURE

UNIT OF MEASURE INPUT IS NOT AN ACCEPTED ALPHA-NUMERIC CODE, OR IS FORMATTED INCORRECTLY. FOR AUTOMATED INVOICE INPUT PURPOSES, THE ABOVE MESSAGE RELATES TO DATA TRANSMITTED IN THE C33 REC, POS 19-21 OR 61-63. VALID UNITS OF MEASURE (AS LISTED IN APPENDIX C OF THE CATAIR) SHOULD BE REPORTED IN THESE TWO FIELDS; HOWEVER, ANY REASONABLE ABBREVIATION WILL BE ACCEPTED IN THE CI APPLICATION (I.E. "DOZ" OR "DZ" FOR DOZEN, ETC.) IF POS 19-21 OR 61-63 ARE BLANK, AND A QUANTITY IS TRANSMITTED IN POS 4-18, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL BE GENERATED.
166: STATEMENT NUMBER NOT ON FILE

THIS MESSAGE IS USED WHEN A REQUESTED STATEMENT NUMBER ON THE ENTRY MASTER FILE DOES NOT EXIST.
40L: SPI INVALID FOR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

SPECIAL PROGRAMS THAT REDUCE OR ELIMINATE DUTY ARE NOT APPLICABLE TO EVERY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN THAT MAY APPEAR ON AN IMPORT TRANSACTION. GSP (SPI "A") APPLIES ONLY TO THOSE COUNTRIES LISTED AS BENEFICIARY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ANDEAN PREFERENCE (SPI "J") APPLIES ONLY TO THOSE COUNTRIES CODED AS ELIGIBLE FOR THAT PROGRAM. THE SPECIAL PROGRAMS DATABASE LISTS WHICH COUNTRIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR VARIOUS SPECIAL PROGRAMS. IF A SUMMARY INPUT CONTAINS A SPECIAL PROGRAM INDICATOR WHICH IS NOT APPLICABLE TO THE TRANSMITTED COUNTRY OF ORIGIN, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL BE GENERATED. NOTE: IF THE LINE HAS TWO TARIFF NUMBERS, BOTH OF WHICH ARE NAFTA ELIGIBLE, THE SPI'S USED MUST AGREE WITH THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN. IF THE FILER USES "CA" FOR THE SPI IN EITHER THE 50 OR 70 RECORD, WITH "MX" IN THE 40 RECORD AS C/O, THIS MESSAGE WILL ALSO BE GENERATED. SEE ERROR MSG 40J, AS WELL.
Q11: PAYMENT ACCEPTED

THE 'QT' RECORD HAS BEEN ACCEPTED ERROR FREE. THE STATEMENT WILL BE MARKED AS "PAID", POSTINGS TO THE INDIVIDUAL ENTRIES WILL OCCUR, A FINAL STATEMENT WILL BE GENERATED, AND AN ELECTRONIC ACH DEBIT WILL OCCUR TO THE PAYOR'S BANK ACCOUNT DENOTED BY THE 'QT' TRANSACTION PAYOR'S UNIT NUMBER.
VEW: FDA STATUS CONFLICTING/NOT ALLOWD

THIS ERROR MESSAGE IS AN INTERNAL REJECT MESSAGE BETWEEN CUSTOMS ACS AND FDA'S SYSTEM. IT OCCURS WHEN FDA ATTEMPTS TO SEND A PROCESSING STATUS ON AN ENTRY THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN PROCESSED WITH THE SAME STATUS OR A STATUS THAT DENOTES A COMPLETION OF THE ENTRY. THIS MESSAGE DOES NOT GO TO THE FILER NOR DOES IT AFFECT THE FDE STATUS OF THE ENTRY.
AH8: 43 RECORD IS BLANK / INVALID

THE 43 RECORD IS INVALID OR BLANK. 
DDA: NAFTA RECONCILIATION NOT FILED

A DRAWBACK CLAIM CANNOT BE FILED AGAINST AN IMPORT ENTRY THAT HAS BEEN FLAGGED FOR RECONCILIATION UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE RECONCILIATION SUMMARY HAS BEEN FILED AND PAID. AT THE TIME OF LIQUIDATION, THIS MESSAGE IS ALSO USED TO ALERT THE USER THAT A NAFTA RECONCILIATION IS DUE ON A TYPE '01', '02', OR '06' ENTRY, BUT HAS NOT YET BEEN FILED. THIS MESSAGE IS OVERRIDEABLE AT LIQUIDATION.
1C1: MISSING VESSEL CODE/NAME

FOR OCEAN IMPORT SHIPMENTS, THE VESSEL NAME FIELD OR VESSEL CODE FIELD MUST BE FILLED IN. VESSEL CODES ARE NO LONGER USED AND ARE NOT GENERALLY AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC. THEREFORE, IF THE VESSEL FIELD IS LEFT BLANK (REPORTED IN REC H2, POS 60-79) ON THE CARGO INPUT APPLICATION (CODE HI), THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL BE GENERATED.
14J: ENTERED UOM/CENSUS UOM MISMATCH

ENTERED UNIT OF MEASURE DOES NOT MATCH CENSUS UNIT OF MEASURE ON TARIFF FILE. THIS MESSAGE WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY THE 15K "DUTY COMPUTATION NOT PERFORMED" ERROR MESSAGE. 
27J: *CENSUS* OR-AGR CHARGES/VALUE

THIS MESSAGE IS GENERATED ON ENTRY SUMMARY INPUT TRANSACATIONS WHEN THE LINE ITEM CHARGES (40 REC, POS 48-57) DIVIDED BY THE LINE ITEM VALUE (40 REC, POS 8-17) EXCEED A STATED PERCENTAGE. IF THE RATIO BETWEEN THE CHARGES AND VALUE EXCEEDS THE PERCENTAGE SHOWN ON TARIFF/CENSUS DATABASE BY MORE THAN 300 PERCENT, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL BE GENERATED. (EXAMPLE: VALUE IS $400 FOR TARIFF 8541402000 AND THE CHARGES ARE $100. THIS IS A 25% RATIO. THE RECORD FOR THE TARIFF NUMBER SHOWS 7% AS THE UPPER LIMIT. 7% OF $400 IS $28. 300% OF THIS FIGURE WOULD BE $84. THEREFORE, CHARGES FROM $1 TO $84 WOULD NOT GENERATE THIS WARNING MESSAGE, BUT CHARGES OF $85 OR HIGHER WOULD.) FOR SHIPMENTS BY AIR, THE CHARGES IS SOMETIMES COMPARED TO THE GROSS WEIGHT (40 REC, POS18-27) AND THIS MESSAGE COULD BE GENERATED EVEN IN A CASE WHERE THE CHARGES/VALUE RATIO WAS BELOW 300% OF THE VALUE.
B14: PROVINCE CODE REQUIRED

1.IF THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN (REC 40, POS 6-7) AND THE COUNTRY OF EXPORT (REC 50, POS 69-70) IS CANADA, THE CANADIAN PROVINCE CODE MUST BE USED AS THE ISO CODE FOR THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN. 2. IF THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN (REC 40, POS 6-7) IS EITHER CA OR THE CANADIAN PROVINCE CODE, THE ISO CODE OF THE MANUFACTURER ID (REC 60, POS 43-44) MUST BE THE CANADIAN PROVINCE CODE.
AEY: 42 SENT; NOT REQUIRED

IN THE AUTOMATED INVOICE INTERFACE PROGRAM THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL OCCUR IF AUTOMATED FILER SENDS A 42 INVOICE RECORD WITHOUT AN "E" (ELECTRONIC INVOICE INDICATOR) IN POSITION 56 OF THE 10 RECORD. IF THE FILER SENDS THE "E" THEY MUST SEND THE 42 RECORD. 
G9B: REMOTE ENTRY/BOND TYPE CONFLICT

IF THE B RECORD REMOTE ENTRY INDICATOR IS A '1', THE BOND TYPE CODE IN THE ENTRY DATA MUST BE 8.
ASM: ARGUMENT/JUSTIFICATION REQ'D

A STATEMENT OF THE NATURE OF, AND JUSTIFICATION FOR THE PROTEST, PETITION, INTERVENTION MUST BE INCLUDED AT THE TIME OF INITIAL FILING. THE P90 RECORD IS MISSING OR BLANK.
EIQ: INVALID LOCATION CODE INDICATOR

THIS MESSAGE IS GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO AN AUTOMATED INVOICE TRANSMISSION (APPLICATION CI). THE C13 REC, POS 9-10, IS USED TO REPORT ONE OF THREE LOCATION CODE INDICATORS. THE VALID INDICATORS ARE "25" (WHICH INDICATES THE LOCATION CODE IN POS 11-15 WILL BE A CENSUS SCHEDULE K FIVE-NUMERIC FOREIGN PORT OF LADING CODE), "26" (WHICH INDICATES THAT THE CODE IN POS 11-15 WILL A U.S. PORT OF ENTRY FROM CENSUS SCHEDULE D), OR "66" (WHICH INDICATES THAT T LOCATION IN POS 11-15 WILL BE AN ISO COUNTRY CODE). IF ANY OTHER CODE IS USED, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL BE GENERATED. THIS MESSAGE APPLIES TO THE C43 RECORD, AS WELL.
AQE: TARIFF ACT CITATION INVALID

THIS FIELD IS REQUIRED TO DETERMINE THE SECTION OF CUSTOMS CODE UNDER WHICH THE PROTEST, CLAIM OR INTERVENTION IS BEING FILED. VALID VALUES ARE: 1 - SECTION 514 PROTEST 2 - SECTION 520(C) PETITION 3 - SECTION 520(D) PETITION 4 - SECTION 181.115 INTERVENTION UNDER NAFTA

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