Automated Manifest Sytstem (AMS)


ABI Error Message

J05: AWB MUST BE 8 CHARACTERS

HOUSE AIR WAYBILLS MUST CONTAIN AT LEAST 8 CHARACTERS. IF FEWER THAN 8 CHARACTERS ARE TRANSMITTED IN THE INPUT RECORDS (EI, 22 REC, POS 27-38, HI, HA REC, POS 27-38), THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL RESULT. THE "8-CHARACTER" AWB NUMBER REFERS TO THE DIGITS FOLLOWING THE AIR CARRIER'S PREFIX (THREE CHARACTER NUMERIC IN POS 15-17 OF THE 22 REC IN EI OR POS 15-17 OF THE HA REC IN HI). IF THE PORT OF UNLADING IS AN AMS AIRPORT, ONLY 11- CHARACTERS (PREFIX + 8 DIGIT AWB) IS PERMITTED. SOME CARRIERS PERIODICALLY USE A 9-CHARACTER AWB FOLLOWING THE PREFIX FOR INTERNAL USES. THIS TYPE OF AWB WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AT AIR AMS PORTS, BUT WILL BE ACCEPTED AT A NON-AMS PORT (SUCH AS 2895, THE FEDEX COURIER FACILITY IN OAKLAND, CA).
APX: FAX INDICATOR CANNOT CHANGE

NOTIFICATION TO CUSTOMS THAT A FACSIMILE WAS SENT, INDICATED BY 'S', MAY BE SUBMITTED BY FILER AT INITIAL FILING OF PROTEST, CLAIM OR INTERVENTION. 'N' INDICATES THAT NO FACSIMILE WAS SENT. NO VALUE SUBMITTED IN THE FAX INDICATOR WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER INITIAL FILING. 
070: INVALID OBJECT CLASS

1 TO 3 DIGIT CODE IS NOT FOUND WHEN VALIDATED AGAINST THE CAMIS OBJECT CLASS CODE FILE. OBJECT CLASS CODE IS NOT NUMERIC. EXCEPTION: MAY BE NON-NUMERIC FOR CLASS CODES 060,061,062,063,069 OR 071. LEFT-JUSTIFIED ZEROS ARE NOT REQUIRED INPUT.
36P: INVALID CHECK DIGIT FACTOR

WITH THE NEW CHECK DIGIT FIELD ON THE NATIONAL FILER DATABASE RECORD YOU MAY ONLY HAVE A VALUE 1 (ONE) OR 0 (ZERO). 
487: INVALID REFERENCE NUMBER FORMAT

THE REFERENCE NUMBER IS TRANSMITTED BY THE FILER AND USUALLY REPRESENTS THE FILER'S IRS, OR SSN NUMBER. WHEN A CUSTOMS FORM 4811 HAS BEEN PROCESSED BY LOCAL CUSTOMS, THE AGENT (OWNER OF THE REFERENCE NUMBER) WILL RECEIVE CERTAIN NOTIFICATIONS, LIQUIDATION NOTICES, ETC. FOR THE IMPORTER OF RECORD ON THE ENTRY. THE REFERENCE NUMBER MUST BE TRANSMITTED IN ACCEPTABLE IRS (NN-NNNNNNNNN) OR SSN (NNN-NN-NNNN) FORMAT IN THE 10 REC, POS 32-43. IF THE FORMAT IS NOT CORRECT, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL BE GENERATED.
2C0: BOND NOT IN EFFECT

A VALID BOND IS ON FILE, BUT IS NOT EFFECTIVE ON THE DATE OF THE QUOTA ENTRY. OR, IF NOT ABI, CHECK BOND TYPE ON ENTRY HEADER MASTER RECORD. IF (9), MUST "X" 'S.E.B.' ACS WILL NOT CHECK CONTINUOUS (301) BOND FILE.
ARO: PROTESTANT DATA REJECTED

PROTESTANT DATA IS REJECTED.
RBV: WARNING - IMPTR ON REG'L SANCTION

FOR RECONCILIATION, THIS MEANS THAT THE IMPORTER IS ON REGIONAL SANCTION. THIS IS ONLY A WARNING FOR RECONCILIATION.
546: EXISTING ENTRY IN CUSTOMS STATUS

THIS MESSAGE OCCURS WHEN A FILER ATTEMPTS TO TRANSMIT AN ENTRY SUMMARY TRANSACTION FOR AN ENTRY NUMBER THAT IS IN CUSTOMS STATUS. CUSTOMS STATUS MEANS THAT CUSTOMS HAS "PROCESSED" THE ENTRY. THE MOST COMMON SITUATION FOR THIS ERROR IS WHEN A PAYMENT HAS BEEN COLLECTED (BY CHECK, STATEMENT PROCESSING OR ACH) AND THE FILER ATTEMPTS TO RETRANSMIT THE SUMMARY DATA. ANOTHER COMMON CAUSE FOR THIS ERROR IS WHEN THE ENTRY NUMBER APPEARS ON A PRELIMINARY STATEMENT AND THE FILER ATTEMPTS TO CORRECT THE SUMMARY DATA WITHOUT FIRST REMOVING THE ENTRY FROM STATEMENT STATUS. IF THE ENAI SCREEN SHOWS "ENT ACP NOT LIQ", THE FILER MAY NOT RETRANSMIT THE SUMMARY UNTIL THE SUMMARY IS PUT INTO A REJECTED STATUS. IF THE ENTRY NUMBER IS A DRAWBACK CLAIM THAT IS IN CUSTOMS STATUS AND THE FILER IS ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE THE DATA, THE DISKETTE WILL BE REJECTED AND CUSTOMS WILL MANUALLY PROCESS ANY CHANGES AS INDICATED ON THE PAPER CLAIM. IF THE ENTRY NUMBER IS NOT A DRAWBACK CLAIM, BOTH THE CLAIM AND DISKETTE WILL BE RETURNED. ACCELERATED DRAWBACK WILL BE PAID UPON CORRECTION (IF NOT PREVIOUSLY PAID). ABI WILL REJECT THE TRANSMISSION.
ARE: ACTION CODE REQUIRED

WHEN THE PROTESTANT TYPE IS "F" (FOREIGN) OR "O" (OTHER), PROTESTANT NAME AND ADDRESS MAY BE CORRECTED BY FILING AN AMENDMENT DURING ANY REMAINING PORTION OF THE FILING/AMENDMENT PERIOD, OR BY FILING AN ADDENDA AFTER THE FILING/ AMENDMENT PERIOD HAS CLOSED. A "C" MUST BE SUBMITTED IN THE ACTION CODE FIELD IN EITHER CASE. THE ACTION CODE FIELD CANNOT BE BLANK.
564: LINE MISSING/OUT OF SEQ/INVALID

SUMMARY INPUT CONSISTS OF A SERIES OF RECORDS DESCRIBED IN THE CATAIR. IF ANY REQUIRED RECORDS ARE TRANSMITTED IN THE WRONG ORDER, OR IF REQUIRED RECORDS ARE OMITTED IN THE TRANSMISSION, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL RESULT. THIS MESSAGE ALSO APPLIES TO OTHER APPLICATIONS, AS DESCRIBED IN THE CATAIR, FOR WHICH RECORDS ARE TRANSMITTED THAT ARE EITHER OUT OF PROPER SEQUENCE, OR ARE NOT PART OF THE APPLICATION. FOR EXAMPLE, TRANSMITTING THE OGA CORRECTION APPLICATION (CODE CP) WITH FCC DATA WILL CAUSE THIS ERROR MESSAGE. OMITTING THE CARRIER CODE IN THE 01 RECORD FOR A BORDER CARGO RELEASE INPUT (HN) FOR AN AMS PORT WILL GET THIS MESSAGE. MOST OTHER SITUATIONS THAT RESULT IN THIS ERROR ARE FAIRLY STRAIGHTFORWARD AS TO WHICH RECORDS MAY BE MISSING OR SENT IN ERROR. FOR RECON ENTRIES, CHECK EVERY R20 RECORD THAT HAS A FOLLOWING R21 RECORD. THERE MUST BE A TRAILER COUNTER IN POS 78-79 OF THE R20 WHICH SHOWS HOW MANY R21'S ARE BEING INCLUDED FOR THE ENTRY IN THE R20. IF THE R20 SHOWS '01' IN POS 78-79, THERE MUST BE ONLY 1 R21 RECORD, AND SO ON. THE REVERSE IS TRUE, AS WELL: IF NO R21 REC, THE R20 MUST SHOW '00'.
VHY: DT HS7: NHTSA RI NOT EFF FOR EDA

THE REGISTERED IMPORTER FILE LISTS ALL VALID REGISTERED IMPORTERS BY A SPECIFICALLY ASSIGNED NUMBER (RI NUMBER). EACH NUMBER ALSO HAS AN EFFECTIVE DATE, USUAL FOR ONE YEAR AT A TIME. IF THE RI NUMBER IS NOT IN EFFECT ON THE ESTIMATED DATE OF ARRIVAL AS TRANSMITTED BY THE FILER IN THE HI OR EI RECORDS, THIS MESSAGE WILL RESULT.
4BI: QUOTA ENTRY CANNOT BE CHANGED

THIS MESSAGE IS GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO A STATEMENT ADD/DELETE TRANSACTION (APPLICATION HI). FILERS WHO HAVE ENTRY SUMMARIES IN QUOTA ACCEPTED STATUS AND SIMULTANEOUSLY SCHEDULED FOR PAYMENT VIA ACH ARE NOT PERMITTED TO REMOVE THOSE ENTRIES FROM STATEMENT/ACH STATUS. IF THE STATEMENT ADD/DELETE TRANSACTION IS ATTEMPTED WITH PAY TYPE CODE 1 (NON-STATEMENT), THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL BE GENERATED.
VM4: HLN: FIELD OR STRING MUST BE Y

EITHER THE FIELD SELECT OR STRING SELECT MUST BE Y=YES. AT LEAST ONE IS REQUIRED. BOTH CAN BE Y=YES, BUT BOTH CAN NOT BE N=NO. 
94P: UNABLE TO LOCATE BGM SEGMENT

EDIFACT SYNTAX ERROR. THE BGM (BEGINNING OF MESSAGE) SEGMENT IS MISSING. 
AP8: VOID. REQ. DATA INCOMPLETE

VOIDANCE REQUEST DATA IS INCOMPLETE -MISSING THE REQUEST INDICATOR OR THE REQUEST DATE. 
AAW: INVALID AD/CV RATE FOR DATE

THE AD/CV RATE TRANSMITTED IN REC 60, POS 69-73 (CVD RATE) AND/OR POS 74-78 (ADD RATE) IS NOT APPLICABLE PER EFFECTIVE DATES SET FORTH IN THE ADD/CVD FILE. THE DATES USED IN DETERMINING THE EFFECTIVE RATE FOLLOW THE FOLLOW ING PROGRESSION: ENTRY DATE, ESTIMATED ENTRY DATE, CARGO RELEASE DATE, ESTIMATED ARRIVAL DATE, SYSTEM DATE.
183: INVALID REGION/DISTRICT/PORT

REGION/DISTRICT/PORT IS NOT VALID ON THE REGION DISTRICT PORT FILE.
VNN: ACCEL. NOT ALLOWED FOR BOND TYPE

IN THE DRAWBACK MODULE THE ACCELERATED INDICATOR MAY ONLY BE A 'Y' IF THE BOND TYPE CODE IS NOT '0' (WOULD BE EITHER '8' OR '9'), UNLESS THE GOVERNMENT CLAIM INDICATOR IS ALSO 'Y' ('1' IF ABI).
VH4: DT HS7: INV LINE #/SEQ

IF MULTIPLE SETS OF DOT DATA RE-TRANSMITTED FOR THE SAME CUSTOMS LINE NUMBER (WHETHER ON THE HI OR EI APPLICATION), EACH DT01 RECORD MUST BE INCREMENTED IN POS 5-7 TO REFLECT "001" FOR THE FIRST SET OF DATA, "002" FOR THE SECOND SET, ETC. IF A NUMBER IS REPEATED IN THE DOT LINE NUMBER FIELD OR IF A NUMBER IS SKIPPED (IE FROM 001 TO 003), THIS MESSAGE WILL RESULT.
EI2: QUANTITY REQUIRED

THIS MESSAGE IS GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO AN AUTOMATED INVOICE TRANSACTION (APPLICATION CI). QUANTITY DATA IS REPORTED IN THE C33 REC (POS 4-18) OR THE C34 REC (POS 4-18 AND 22-36). IF THE ARTICLE DESCRIBED IN THE INVOICE HAS ONE OR MORE QUANTITIES (BASED ON THE TARIFF NUMBER WHICH DESCRIBES THE ARTICLE), THE C33 AND C34 RECORDS PROVIDE THE MEANS TO REPORT THE REQUIRED QUANTITIES. AT A MINIMUM, THE C33 RECORD MUST CONTAIN A NUMBER GREATER THAN ZERO. IF THE C34 RECORD IS USED TO DESCRIBE ADDITIONAL QUANTITES FOR THE ARTICLE, THE QUANTITY FIELDS IN THAT RECORD MUST BE GREATER THAN ZERO, DEPENDING ON WHETHER THE ARTICLE DESCRIBED HAS TWO REPORTABLE QUANTITIES (WHICH WOULD REQUIRE THE C33 RECORD AND THE "QUANTTIY 2 FIELD IN THE C34 REC) OR THREE REPORTABLE QUANTITES (WHICH WOULD REQUIRE THE C33 REC, AND THE QUANTITY 2 AND QUANTITY 3 FIELDS IN THE C34 REC).
ARN: PROTESTANT DATA INCOMPLETE

PROTESTANT DATA IS INCOMPLETE.
" 42F: DATA ADDED WITH WARNINGS

THIS IS AN ABI OUTPUT MESSAGE IN REPLY TO A CARGO RELEASE DATA INPUT TRANSACTION (APPLICATION HI). THIS MESSAGE WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY ONE OR MORE MESSAGES THAT INDICATE THAT SOME OF THE INPUT DATA IS NOT IN STRICT COMPLIANCE WITH ACS REQUIREMENTS, BUT WHICH, NONETHELESS, IS ACCEPTABLE. ('ULTIMATE CONSIGNEE NOT ON FILE' IS AN EXAMPLE). THIS MESSAGE OCCURS WHEN THE FILER'S INPUT CONTAINS AN 'ADD' INDICATOR (LETTER "A") IN THE H1 RECORD, POS 3
VGH: FD 701: NO FDA MFR NAME/ADDR

DATA SUBMITTED AS PART OF THE FDA INTERFACE MUST INCLUDE AN MID THAT REPRESENTS THE ACTUAL MANUFACTURER. THIS MID WILL BE COMPARED TO THOSE LISTED ON THE MID FILE. IF THE MID IN QUESTION IS LISTED ON THIS FILE IN "PENDING" STATUS, THIS MESSAGE WILL RESULT. THE MID FILE NO LONGER ACCEPTS MID'S WITHOUT NAMES AND ADDRESSES, SO THE PENDING FILE SHOULD NOT INCREASE IN SIZE. THIS MESSAGE SHOULD NOT OCCUR IN NORMAL ABI INPUT TRANSACTIONS.
VNY: CLAIM DUTY CANNOT EXCEED PAID

THIS DRAWBACK MODULE ERROR MESSAGE MEANS THAT THE AMOUNT OF DUTY CLAIMED AGAINST THE IMPORT FOR THIS DRAWBACK CLAIM EXCEEDS THE TOTAL DUTY ORIGINALLY AVAILABLE FOR THE ENTRY. THESE ERRORS WILL OCCUR IF THE IMPORT ENTRY IS BEING DESIGNATED FOR DRAWBACK FOR THE FIRST TIME AND THE CLAIMED DUTY AMOUNT EXCEEDS THE ORIGINAL AVAILABLE AMOUNT, OR IF THE CLAIM IS A TYPE '46' AND THE CLAIMED DRAWBACK EXCEEDS THE CURRENT AVAILABLE DUTY. NOTE: THERE ARE OTHER ODD CONDITIONS WHERE THE MESSAGE WILL OCCUR DUE TO NO FAULT OF THE FILER. IF THE FILER INDICATES THAT MORE MONIES WERE PAID THAN ARE REFLECTED IN ACS (E.G. SUPPLEMENTAL DUTIES ON A VOULUNTARY TENDER FOR ASSISTS WAS TENDERED, BUT THE COLLECTION WAS NOT POSTED TO THE ENTRY), THE FILER SHOULD BE INSTRUCTED TO DESIGNATE THE ADDITIONAL MONIES ON CM 999999/9900. THIS CM WAS CREATED JUST FOR THIS TYPE OF CONDITION.

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