Automated Manifest Sytstem (AMS)


ABI Error Message

Q19: 'QT' PAYMENT TYPE INVALID

THE PAYMENT TYPE (REC QT, POS 9-10) MUST BE "01" AT THE CURRENT TIME. EVENTUALLY, OTHER CUSTOMS OBLIGATIONS SUCH AS BILLS WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR ACH PAYMENT USING OTHER PAYMENT TYPE INDICATORS. UNTIL THAT ENHANCEMENT IS ANNOUNCED, ONLY PAYMENT TYPE 01 WILL BE ACCEPTED BY ABI (WHICH MEANS THAT SPACES "00" OR A "1" WILL ALSO BE REJECTED).
DKY: D25 RECORD IS REQUIRED

THIS ERROR MESSAGE OCCURS IN THE AUTOMATED DRAWBACK MODULE AND WILL APPEAR IF ANY IMPORT ENTRY CITED ON THE CLAIM HAS AN ENTRY DATE ON OR AFTER 4/6/2003.AS OF THAT DATE THE REPORTING OF SCHEDULE B NUMBERS IS REQUIRED ON THE CLAIMS. AT LEAST ONE ABI 'D25' SCHEDULE B NUMBER RECORD CONTAINING AT LEAST ONE VALID SCHEDULE B NUMBER IS REQUIRED IF ANY IMPORT ENTRY IS DATED ON OR AFTER 4/6/2003.
AP2: HEADER/DETAIL DATA REQUIRED

ONE OR MORE REQUIRED RECORDS IS MISSING. A P10 IS REQUIRED FOR INITIAL, AMENDMENT, ADDENDA, AND SERVICE REQUESTS. THE P11 IS REQUIRED FOR INITIAL FILING. THE P11 SHOULD BE USED AS PART OF THE AMENDMENT OR ADDENDA ONLY TO CHANGE A 'N' (NO) SAMPLE AND/OR 'N' (NO) HARDCOPY INDICATOR TO 'S' (SENT). THE P15 RECORD IS REQUIRED FOR INITIAL FILING. THE P16 RECORD IS REQUIRED WHEN FURTHER REVIEW IS REQUESTED IN THE ACCOMPANYING P10 OF THE INITIAL FILING OR AMENDMENT TRANSACTION.
0JI: TARIFF NUMBER MUST BE ENTERED

  NUMBER MUST BE ENTERED
VLK: TOT IMPORT TRAILER COUNT INVALID

THIS DRAWBACK MODULE ERROR MESSAGE MEANS THAT THE SUM OF ALL THE DISKETTE 'IT' IMPORT TRAILER, 'CN' CONTRACT TRAILER, 'CM' IMPORT TRAILER, OR 'CI' CANADIAN IMPORT TRAILER RECORDS OR ABI 'D12', 'D30', 'D40', OR 'D50' RECORDS DOES NOT ADD UP TO WHAT THE COUNT IS IN THE 'CT CLAIM TRAILER' RECORD, OR ABI 'D90' RECORD. BECAUSE IT DOES NOT ADD UP ABI CANNOT KNOW WHETHER THE TOTAL COUNT IS SIMPLY WRONG, OR THE TOTAL COUNT IS RIGHT AND THERE ARE MISSING RECORDS. FOR RECONCILIATION, THE 'R90' TOTAL IMPORT TRAILER RECORD COUNT OF 'R20' RECORDS DOES NOT MATCH THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF 'R20' RECORDS GIVEN VIA THE ABI 'RA' TRANSACTION. IF THE R20 RECORD, POS 78-79 IS BLANK, THIS MESSAGE WILL BE GENERATED, EVEN IF THE FIGURE IN THE R90 REC, POS 4-7, EQUALS THE NUMBER OF R20 RECORDS IN THE RECONCILIATION INPUT TRANSACTION.
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).
89E: FEE CODE ENTERED/NOT REQUIRED

THIS MESSAGE WILL BE GENERATED IF A FEE IS TRANSMITTED IN THE 62 RECORD FOR A TARIFF NUMBER THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN A FLAG FOR THAT FEE ON THE TARIFF FILE. THE MOST COMMON EXAMPLE IS THE TRANSMISSION OF A COTTON FEE, CLASS CODE 056, FOR A TARIFF NUMBER THAT DOES NOT HAVE A COTTON FEE ON ITS CURRENT RECORD. FILERS SHOULD VERIFY THE APPLICABILITY OF THE FEE FROM THE TARIFF FILES. THIS MESSAGE WILL ALSO RESULT IF CERTAIN FEES ARE TRANSMITTED INCORRECTLY ON A SET ENTRY. IN THIS CASE, THE MPF FEE (499) AND THE HMF (501) FEES MUST ONLY BE TRANSMITTED WITH THE "X" LINES. OTHER TARIFF SPECIFIC FEES CAN ONLY BE TRANSMITTED WITH THE APPROPRIATE "V" LINES. THIS MESSAGE IS ALSO GENERATED IF THE AMOUNT OF THE COTTON FEE, CALCULATED BY ACS, IS LESS THAN $2.01, USING THE CORRECT RATE. ACS WILL NOT DISPUTE THE FILER'S AMOUNT OF COTTON FEE IN SUCH A SITUATION. IT WILL MERELY ADVISE THE FILER THAT NO FEE IS REQUIRED.
DK7: TOT TARIFF TRAILER COUNT INVALID

THIS MESSAGE OCCURS IN THE AUTOMATED DRAWBACK MODULE. THE SUM OF THE ABI'D12', 'D20', 'D25', 'D30', 'D40', OR 'D50' RECORDS DOES NOT ADD UP TO WHAT THE COUNT IS IN THE 'CT CLAIM TRAILER' RECORD, OR ABI 'D90' RECORD. BECAUSE IT DOES NOT ADD UP, WE CANNOT KNOW WHETHER THE TOTAL COUNT IS SIMPLY WRONG, OR THE TOTAL COUNT IS RIGHT AND WE ARE MISSING RECORDS. 
VM3: HLN: STRING SELECT MUST BE Y/N

THE SELECT BY STRING SWITCH MUST BE Y=YES OR N=NO. THIS WILL DETERMINE IF OVERRIDE SELECT CRITERIA WILL SUPPORT A STRING SEARCH. 
APS: HARDCOPY INDICATOR INVALID

NOTIFICATION TO CUSTOMS THAT HARDCOPY MATERIALS HAVE BEEN SENT, INDICATED BY 'S', MAY BE SUBMITTED BY FILER AT ANY TIME PRIOR TO ADJUDICATION OF PROTEST OR CLAIM BY CUSTOMS. 'N' INDICATES THAT HARDCOPY MATERIALS DO NOT APPLY. ONCE TO 'S' THE HARDCOPY INDICATOR CAN NOT BE UN-SET TO 'N'. THE VALUE SUBMITTED HARDCOPY INDICATOR CANNOT BE UN-SET TO 'N'. THE VALUE SUBMITTED IN THE HARDCOPY INDICATOR IS NOT 'S' OR 'N'. 
CF2: FEI ALREADY ON ACS

THIS MESSAGE OCCURS IN THE FDA INTERFACE, SPECIFICALLY IN THE 'SP' TRANSACTION. THIS IS WHERE FDA IS RESPONDING TO A FILER'S REQUEST TO ADD A DOMESTIC FIRM TO THE FEI FILE (FDA ESTABLISHMENT IDENTIFIER) AND IS RETURING TO ABI A 12 DIGIT NUMBER THAT IS ALREADY ON FILE.
03L: INVALID IT NUMBER

CONVENTIONAL INBOND NUMBERS MUST BE 9-DIGITS LONG AT THE CURRENT TIME. TRANSMISSIONS THAT CONTAIN FEWER THAN 9 DIGITS WILL RESULT IN THIS ERROR MESSAGE.  
95E: ENTRY NOT ELIGIBLE FOR RECONCILE

THIS MESSAGE IS GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO AN ENTRY SUMMARY INPUT TRANSACTION (APPLICATION EI). ONLY THREE ENTRY TYPES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THE RECONCILIATION PROTOTYPE AS OF OCT 1998. THE THREE TYPES ARE "01", "02", AND "06". IF ANY OTHER ENTRY TYPE IS TRANSMITTED IN THE 10 REC, POS 71-72, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL RESULT.
DKG: CLAIM EXISTS - SUBMIT 'DELETE'

THIS MESSAGE WILL APPEAR IF THE FILER HAS USED AN ADDITION/DELETION CODE OF 'A' ON THE 'CH' HEADER RECORD OF THE DRAWBACK DISKETTE (THE 'D10' RECORD FOR ABI) AND THE DRAWBACK CLAIM ALREADY EXISTS ON CUSTOMS FILE. A DELETE OF A CLAIM BY A FILER CAN ONLY BE HONORED IF THE CLAIM IS STILL IN ABI STATUS. ALL CLAIMS CREATED BY DISKETTE OR VIA ABI ARE PLACED IN ABI STATUS BY ACS WHEN FIRST ACCEPTED ERROR-FREE. THE SAME LOGIC APPLIES TO IMPORT ENTRIES FILED ELECTRONICALLY VIA ABI. ONCE IN CUSTOMS STATUS, THEY CANNOT BE DELETED BY THE FILER. IF NOT IN CUSTOMS STATUS, FILER MUST SUBMIT A 'D' ACTION CODE. NOTE: THE CLAIM CANNOT BE DELETED AT ALL IF ACCELERATED DRAWBACK HAS BEEN PAID. IF ACCELERATED HAS BEEN PAID AND THE FILER WISHES TO DELETE, THE CLAIM WILL HAVE TO BE LIQUIDATED "NO DRAWBACK" AND A BILL ISSUED FOR REPAYMENT OF THE ACCELERATED DRAWBACK. IF ACCELERATED HAS NOT BEEN PAID, BUT THE ENTRY IS IN A CUSTOMS STATUS, IT CAN BE CANCELLED, BUT NOT DELETED.
99J: HONG KONG VISA/LIVE INDICATOR REQ

FOR CERTAIN TEXTILE NUMBERS, IF THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN IS CHINA (CN) AND THE ISO COUNTRY CODE OF THE VISA (1ST TWO POSITIONS) IS HONG KONG (HK), A LIVE ENTRY INDICATOR (1) IS REQUIRED IN POSITION 44 OF THE EI 10 RECORD OR THIS REJECT WILL OCCUR.
VK1: HLS: RELATIONAL OPERATOR INVALID

THE RELATIONAL OPERATOR CODE MUST BE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: LT = LESS THAN LE = LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO EQ = EQUAL  GE = GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO NE = NOT EQUAL NY = IS NULL NN = NOT NULL NV = NULL VALUE SP = STRING PRESENT SA = STRING ABSENT IG = IGNORE
27D: *CENSUS* OR-HI VAL/QTY (1)TARIFF1

THE UNIT PRICE (VALUE/PRIMARY QUANTITY) IS NOT WITHIN SPECIFIC LIMITS  
125: HIGH NUMBER NOT GREATER THAN LOW

 DOCUMENT NUMBER: -THE HIGH DOCUMENT NUMBER MUST BE GREATER THAN THE LOW DOCUMENT NUMBER IN A RANGE. IT IS PERMISSIBLE FOR THE HIGH DOCUMENT NUMBER AND THE LOW DOCUMENT NUMBER TO BE THE SAME WHERE A SINGLE DOCUMENT NUMBER IS BEING ADJUSTED.
VGZ: FEI NOT FOUND ON ACS

THIS MESSAGE OCCURS WHEN A FILER QUERIES ABI TO DETERMINE WHETHER AN FDA ESTABLISHMENT NUMBER (FEI) IS ON FILE. ALL TWELVE NUMBERS MUST BE USED INCLUDING LEADING ZEROS. THE FILER USES THE FDPP-10 RECORD SHOWN ON PAGE OGQ-14 OF THE CATAIR WITH A "Q" IN THE ACTION CODE. THIS MESSAGE IS RETURNED WHEN THE FEI NUMBER QUERIED IS NOT FOUND IN ACS. A COMMON REASON IS BECAUSE THE FILER IS NOT QUERYING ALL 12 NUMBERS. THEY SHOULD RESEND THE QUERY USING ALL NUMBERS INCLUDING LEADING ZEROS.
VN8: FLR CANNOT VARY IN B=>Y BLOCK

THIS ERROR INDICATES THAT THE FILER CODE SENT ON THIS CLAIM OR CLAIMS DIFFERS FROM THAT OF THE FILER SENDING THE DATA. THIS ERROR RARELY OCCURS WITH THE DISKETTE, SINCE USCS IS SUBMITTING THE DATA FOR THE FILER. IT CAN OCCUR WITH ABI, FOR EXAMPLE, WHERE A FILER MAY BE SENDING DATA FOR THEIR 3901 OFFICE AND INADVERTENTLY INCLUDES A 5301 OFFICE CLAIM. FOR RECONCILIATION, THIS MEANS THAT THE FILER IN THE 'B' RECORD DIFFERS FROM THE FILER IN THE 'R10' RECORD.
2AL: SURETY CODE INVALID

IF THE FILER TRANSMITS BOND CODE 8 (CONTINUOUS BOND) IN THE SUMMARY INPUT (REC 10, POS 49), THE SURETY CODE IN REC 10, POS 73-75 MUST BE LISTED ON THE BOND DATABASE FILE AND MUST BE IN ACTIVE STATUS. IN ADDITION, THE SURETY CODE CITED IN THE 10 RECORD MUST MATCH THE SURETY CODE IN THE BOND DATABASE FILE FOR THE IMPORTER NUMBER TRANSMITTED IN REC 10, POS 8-19. (THE SURETY CODE FIELD CANNOT BE BLANK, EITHER). IF CASH IS USED IN LIEU OF A BOND, THE BOND TYPE MUST BE A "9" AND SURETY CODE "998" MUST BE USED. IF BOND TYPE "0" IS SENT, AND NO SURETY CODE IS SENT, AS WELL, THIS MESSAGES RESULTS. THIS MESSAGE WILL ALSO APPEAR IF THE IMPORTER HAS TWO ACTIVE CONTINUOUS BONDS IN EFFECT AT THE SAME TIME. THE SURETY CODE FOR THE BOND THAT WENT INTO EFFECT FIRST MUST BE USED ON SUMMARY INPUT TRANSACTIONS. SURETY CODES ARE VALIDATED BASED ON DATE OF RELEASE, SO A SUMMARY TRANSMITTED WITH A SURETY CODE BASED ON ESTIMATED ENTRY DATE WILL ALSO REJECT IF A DIFFERENT SURETY CODE WAS IN EFFECT AT THE TIME OF RELEASE. FOR RECONCILIATION, THE SURETY CODE GIVEN MUST BE VALID ON CUSTOMS FILE.
DKE: TOT CONTRACT TRAILER COUNT WRONG

THIS DRAWBACK MODULE ERROR MESSAGE MEANS THAT THE SUM OF ALL THE DISKETTE 'IT' IMPORT TRAILER, 'CN' CONTRACT TRAILER, 'CM' IMPORT TRAILER, OR 'CI' CANADIAN IMPORT TRAILER RECORDS OR ABI 'D12', 'D30', 'D40', OR 'D50' RECORDS DOES NOT ADD UP TO WHAT THE COUNT IS IN THE 'CT CLAIM TRAILER' RECORD, OR ABI 'D90' RECORD. BECAUSE IT DOES NOT ADD UP ABI CANNOT KNOW WHETHER THE TOTAL COUNT IS SIMPLY WRONG, OR THE TOTAL COUNT IS RIGHT AND THERE ARE MISSING RECORDS.
RBQ: RECONCILIATION DDPP NOT FOUND

THIS MESSAGE MEANS THAT THE FILER HAS USED AN IMPOSSIBLE DDPP IN THE RECON SUMMARY TRANSMISSION VIA ABI. 
4F7: TARIFF NUMBER INVALID

TARIFF NUMBER MUST BE IN THE FOLLOWING FORMAT: ABI - 10 DIGITS, CHECK DIGIT IS UNNECESSARY NON- ABI - 10 DIGITS, AND NUMERIC CHECK DIGIT FROM THE ABOVE, OR IF THE FIELD CONTAINS ALPHABETIC CHARACTERS, THIS MESSAGE WILL BE PROVIDED.
2A7: CARGO RELEASE DATA NOT ON FILE

THIS MESSAGE GENERALLY INDICATES A PROBLEM IN THE CREATION OF CARGO SELECTIVITY RECORDS FROM FILER'S INPUT. EXAMPLE: A FILER SENT IN SEVERAL ENTRIES USING BORDER CARGO RELEASE (APPLICATION HN). BEFORE ABI COULD COMPLETE THE PROCESSING OF THE ENTRIES, THE FILER'S SYSTEM SENT THE SAME ENTRIES AGAIN (WITHIN 12 SECONDS OF THE FIRST TRANSMISSION). THIS DUPLICATION CAUSED DATABASE (DB) ERRORS ON THOSE ENTRIES THAT WERE BEING PROCESSED AT THE INSTANT THE SECOND ITERATION OF THE SAME ENTRY NUMBER REACHED THE MAINFRAME. THE SECOND SET OF ENTRIES HAD PROCESSING DONE, BUT NO ON-LINE RECORDS WERE CREATED. THE ERROR MESSAGE ABOVE WAS CREATED AND ATTACHED TO THE SECOND SET OF ENTRY NUMBERS. THE SOLUTION, IN ALMOST ALL CASES, IS FOR THE FILER TO TRANSMIT ONLY ONCE AND TO WAIT FOR RESULTS BEFORE RE-SUBMITTING DATA FOR THE SAME ENTRY NUMBER.   

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