Automated Manifest Sytstem (AMS)


ABI Error Message

VNJ: DCMCI IMPORTER/FILER INVALID

DCMCI ENTRIES FOR EMERGENCY WAR MATERIAL MAY BE ENTERED BY ANY FILER WHO USES ENTRY TYPE 01. IF ENTRY TYPE 51 IS USED, HOWEVER, THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE FILER CODE AND IMPORTER NUMBER MUST BELONG TO DCMCI. THE CURRENT VALID FILER CODE IS P99. IF A DIFFERENT FILER CODE IS USED, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL RESULT.
ARO: PROTESTANT DATA REJECTED

PROTESTANT DATA IS REJECTED.
531: NON-NUMERIC IN NUMERIC FIELD

IN ACS, ALL MONEY FIELDS AND CERTAIN FIELDS USED AS SWITCHES OR COUNTERS ARE DEFINED AS NUMERIC. DURING ABI PROCESSING OF BROKER DATA, IF A FIELD CONTAINS ALPHA CHARACTERS AND IT SHOULD BE NUMERIC, THE USER WILL RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE. AFTER SYSTEM TESTING WITH BROKERS, THIS MESSAGE SHOULD NOT OCCUR.  THIS MESSAGE WILL ALSO BE GENERATED IF THE NUMERIC FIELD IS FILLED WITH BLANK DATA (AT LEAST IN THE CI-AUTOMATED INVOICE-TRANSACTION).
57A: PAPERLESS - FILER RETAIN RECORDS

MESSAGE ISSUED TO BROKERS WHEN ENTRY SUMMARY IS ERROR FREE AND PAPERLESS. 
PNS: PROTESTANT NOT ON SRE FILE

PROTESTANT NUMBERS (EXCEPT WHEN THE PROTESTANT TYPE IS 'F' (FOREIGN) 'O' (OTHER) OR 'S' (SURETY), MUST BE IN IRS, EIN, SOCIAL SECURITY OR CUSTOM-ASSIGNED (NEW) FORMAT. A MATCH FOR THE NUMBER USED MUST BE FOUND ON THE US IMPORTER (CF5106) FILE DATABASE. 
VLX: DRAWBACK CM/CD CODE INVALID

THIS DRAWBACK MODULE ERROR MESSAGE MEANS THAT THE FILER USED AN INDICATOR OF OTHER THAN 'E' (DIRECT DESIGNATION), 'D' (DESIGNATION FROM A CD) OR 'M' (DESIGNATION FROM A CM) WHERE THEY ARE GIVING IMPORT ENTRY DATA BECAUSE IT IS AVAILABLE.
AFF: 32 REC:DUPLICATE RELEASES FOUND

THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL OCCUR WHEN A CONSOLIDATED ENTRY SUMMARY IS TRANSMITTED WITH DUPLICATE RELEASES IN THE 32 RECORD. AN ERROR MESSAGE WILL FOLLOW TELLING WHICH RELEASES ARE DUPLICATES. 
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.
4BH: ENTRY TYPE CHANGE INVALID

THIS MESSAGE INDICATES THAT THE ABI FILER IS ATTEMPTING TO TRANSMIT AN ENTRY SUMMARY WITH A DIFFERENT ENTRY TYPE THAN EXISTS ON THE ENTRY SUMMARY HEADER FILE FOR THE ENTRY NUMBER. IF THE ENTRY IS IN CUSTOMS STATUS, SUCH A CHANGE IS NOT PERMITTED. IF THE ENTRY IS STILL IN ABI STATUS, THIS CHANGE CAN USUALLY BE ACCOMPLISHED. THE MOST COMMON CHANGE IS FROM TYPE 11 TO TYPE 01 (OR VICE VERSA IN SOME CASES). FOR RECONCILIATION ON-LINE PROCESSING, THIS ERROR MEANS THAT YOU CANNOT CHANGE ANY PRE-EXISTING ENTRY THAT IS NOT RECONCILIATION TO A TYPE '09' RECONCILIATION ENTRY SUMMARY.
VLG: IMPORT TRAILER # OUT OF SEQUENCE

THIS MESSAGE MEANS THAT THE IMPORT TRAILER SEQUENCE NUMBERS ARE OUT OF SEQUENCE IN THE DRAWBACK MODULE. NOTE THAT CONTRACT SEQUENCE NUMBERS ARE 01-99. IF ONLY 1 CONTRACT IS USED ON A CLAIM, THAT CONTRACT NUMBER SHOULD APPEAR IN THE CLAIM HEADER RECORD. THE CONTRACT TRAILER RECORD SHOULD NOT BE USED UNLESS THERE ARE MULTIPLE CONTRACTS ON A CLAIM. THE CONTRACT TRAILER COUNTER IS NOT A COUNT OF CONTRACTS, BUT IS A COUNT OF THE CONTRACT TRAILER RECORDS. IF ONLY ONE CONTRACT IS USED,THE COUNTER SHOULD BE 00, SINCE THERE WILL BE NO TRAILER RECORDS. IF 2 CONTRACTS ARE USED THERE WILL BE ONE CONTRACT TRAILER AND THE COUNT WILL BE 01. THREE CONTRACTS WOULD MEAN TWO TRAILERS AND THE COUNT WOULD BE 02, ETC.. FOR RECONCILIATION, THIS MEANS THAT THE SEQUENCING OF THE IMPORT ENTRY ASSOCIATION RECORDS ('R20') IS OUT OF ORDER.
APY: FAX SENT DATE INVALID

THE CCYYMMDD THAT A FACSIMILE WAS SENT TO CUSTOMS IS REQUIRED AT INITIAL PROTEST, CLAIM AND INTERVENTION FILING WHEN THE VALUE SUBMITTED IN THE FAX INDICATOR IS 'S'. THE VALUE SUBMITTED IN FAX SENT DATE IS NOT A VALID DATE IN CCYYMMDD FORMAT. 
VBM: FW 3-177: INVLD PURPOSE

THE PURPOSE CODE (REC FW03, POS 22-23) IS A MANDATORY CODE CONSISTING OF ONE ALPHA CHARACTER WHICH SHOULD APPEAR IN POS 22. (POSITION 23 IS RESERVED FOR FUTURE USE AND SHOULD BE SPACE FILLED.) THE ONLY ALPHA CHARACTER PERMITTED IS C (COMMERCIAL), N (NON-COMMERCIAL), M (MUSEUM EXCHANGE), S (SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH), OR Z (ZOOLOGICAL EXCHANGE).
VDG: INCORRECTLY ESTIMATED MPF MAXIMUM

CLASS CODE 499 SHOULD INDICATE THE TOTAL MERCHANDISE PROCESSING FEES (MPF) FROM ALL LINE-ITEM 62 RECORDS. IF THE ACTUAL TOTAL IS GREATER THAN $485, 485 SHOULD BE TRANSMITTED IN THE 89 RECORD. NAFTA GOODS ORIGINATING IN MEXICO MAY CONTINUE TO HAVE MPF CLACULATED USING 0.19%. THE MAXIMUM MPF WILL BE $400. IF ONE OR MORE LINES IN AN ENTRY REQUIRE THE .21% MPF RATE, THEN THE MAXIMUM RATE WILL BE $485.00. THIS FEE AMOUNT WILL ALSO BE INCLUDED IN THE TOTAL FEE AMOUNT IN THE "90" RECORD.
VDH: INCORRECTLY ESTIMATED MPF MINIMUM

CLASS CODE 499 SHOULD INDICATE THE TOTAL MERCHANDISE PROCESSING FEES (MPF) FROM ALL LINE-ITEM "62" RECORDS. IF THE ACTUAL TOTAL IS LESS THAN $25.00, USE $25.00 IN THE "89" RECORD. IF THE ENTRY IN QUESTION INVOLES NAFTA, THE MINIMUM MPF IS $21.00 UNLESS ONE OR MORE LINES DO NOT CLAIM NAFTA. IF THE FILER DOES NOT TRANSMIT THE APPROPRIATE MINIMUM MPF FOR A NAFTA ENTRY, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL ALSO BE GENERATED.
4HI: NO QUOTA FOR COUNTRY/CATEGORY

THIS MESSAGE IS GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO AN ABI QUOTA QUERY INPUT. IF THE CATEGORY AND COUNTRY IDENTIFIED BY THE TRANSMITTING FILER DO NOT RESULT IN A MATCH OF THE VARIOUS QUOTA FILES, THIS MESSAGE WILL BE SENT TO THE FILER AS A RESPONSE
AEN: ERROR IN A32 REC; RLSE 1

THIS MESSAGE FOLLOWS A MORE SPECIFIC ERROR MESSAGE (I.E. "1F5 RELEASE NOT ON FILE") IN A CONSOLIDATED ENTRY SUMMARY SITUATION. IT NOTIFIES THE FILER THAT THE ERROR IS IN THE FIRST RELEASE IN THE 32 RECORD. 
ASG: NO MATCH FOR ENTRY

A MATCH FOR THE ENTRY CITED MUST BE FOUND ON THE USCS ENTRY DATABASE, OTHER IT WILL BE REJECTED. THE FORMAT IS TO STRING THE FILER CODE AND ENTRY NUMBER TOGETHER - NO DASH IS USED BETWEEN FILER AND ENTRY NUMBER OR CHECK DIGIT. 
38N: RESTRICTED COUNTRY

THE IMPORT RESTRICTION INDICATOR FOR THIS COUNTRY IS "1" ON THE COUNTRY CODE FILE. THIS INDICATES THAT THIS COUNTRY IS RESTRICTED FROM IMPORTING TO THE U.S. OR THAT THE COUNTRY'S CODE HAS BEEN RENDERED INACTIVE OR INVALID. SINCE THERE IS NO INACTIVE/INVALID CODE IN THE COUNTRY CODE FILE, THE ONLY WAY TO PREVENT USE IS BY MAKING THE COUNTRY "RESTRICTED". AN EXAMPLE OF THIS IS THE COUNTRY CODE 'SQ' FOR SLOVAKIA. EFFECTIVE 03/01/93, THIS COUNTRY CODE WAS NO LONGER VALID. IT CHANGED TO 'SK'. A FILER MIGHT BE MISLED BY THE "RESTRICTED" INDICATOR THEY RECEIVE BACK ON A QUERY OR BY THIS MESSAGE WHEN TRANSMITTING AN ENTRY AND RECEIVING A REJECT. THIS LATTER TYPE OF COUNTRY CODE IS "INVALID" RATHER THAN RESTRICTED.
VDE: INCORRECTLY ESTIMATED MPF SURCHRG

THE CORRECT MPF SURCHARGE FEE IS $3.00 USING COLLECTION CLASS CODE "500".THIS FEE IS REPORTED IN ABI RECORDS 34, 89 AND 90. 
EIF: SHIPPING/PACKING UNIT ID REQUIRED

THIS MESSAGE IS GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO AN AUTOMATED INVOICE TRANSMISSION (APPLICATION CI). IF A C05 RECORD IS TRANSMITTED INDICATING ONE OR MORE SHIPPING UNITS, THEN A C06 RECORD MUST ALSO BE TRANSMITTED FOR EACH OF THE NUMBER OF SHIPPING UNITS LISTED IN THE C05 RECORD. POS 4-20 OF THE C06 RECORD PROVIDES FOR THE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER OF THE SHIPPING UNIT. THIS FIELD CANNOT BE BLANK OR THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL BE GENERATED.
94L: EXPECTED UNA/UNB SEGMENT NOT FND

EDIFACT SYNTAX ERROR. THE UNA/UNB (INTERCHANGE HEADER) SEGMENTS ARE MISSING.
VGB: FD 701: PRODUCT CODE NOT ON FILE

THIS ERROR OCCURS WHEN A FILER ATTEMPTS TO USE AN FDA PRODUCT CODE THAT IS NOT ON FILE IN ACS. FDA MAINTAINS THE FILE. THE FILER SHOULD BE INSTRUCTED TO CONTACT THEIR FDA CONTACT TO CHECK THE PRODUCT CODE. THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 580,000 PRODUCT CODES.
EJB: UNITS OF MEASURE MUST BE EQUAL

THIS MESSAGE IS GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO AN AUTOMATED INVOICE TRANSMISSION (APPLICATION CI). THE C39 RECORD, POS 19-21, IS USED TO REPORT THE UNIT OF MEASURE OF THE QUANTITY REPORTED IN POS 4-18.THIS UNIT OF MEASURE MUST BE IDENTICAL TO THE UNIT OF MEASURE REPORTED IN THE C33 RECORD, POS19-21. IF THE UNITS ARE NOT IDENTICAL, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL RESULT.
AQH: ASSOC. NBR NOT DENIED CLAIM

WHEN PROTESTING DENIAL OF 520(C) OR 520(D) CLAIM, THE USCS ASSIGNED PROTEST NUMBER OF THE DENIED CLAIM IS REQUIRED. THE DATE OF DENIAL OF THAT CLAIM CONSTITUTES THE START OF THE 90 DAY FILING & AMENDMENT PERIOD FOR THE PROTEST. THE NUMBER ENTERED IN THE ASSOCIATED CLAIM NUMBER FIELD IS VALID, BUT THE RECORD INDICATES IT IS EITHER NOT A 520 OR IS NOT IN DENIED STATUS.
AS1: WRN: ENTRY NOT LIQ/CANCELLED

THE ENTRY HAS NOT LIQUIDATED OR WAS CANCELLED. 

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