ABI Error Message

EI3:	UNIT PRICE REQUIRED

THIS MESSAGE IS GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO AN AUTOMATED INVOICE TRANSMISSION (APPLICATION CI). THE C33 RECORD PROVIDES FOR PRICE DATA FOR THE LINE OF THE INVOICE IN QUESTION. POS 22-36 IS PROVIDED TO REPORT THE UNIT PRICE OF THE ARTICLE BEING REPORTED. THIS FIELD CANNOT BE ZERO (UNLESS THE PAYMENT TERMS IN THE C01 RECORD EQUALS "15" -NO CHARGE) OR THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL RESULT.

AQ6:	HARDCOPY INDICATOR REQUIRED

THIS DATA FIELD IS MANDATORY FOR THE INITIAL FILING TRANSACTION. THE ACCEPTABLE INDICATORS ARE 'N' (NO HARDCOPY) AND 'S' (HARDCOPY SENT). THIS DATA FIELD IS CONDITIONAL FOR ANY SUBSEQUENT QJ AMENDMENT OR RJ ADDENDA TRANSACTION. IN A QJ OR RJ THE PROTEST RECORD CAN BE UPDATED TO CHANGE NO HARDCOPY TO HARDCOPY SENT BY TRANSMITTING 'S'. IF THE PJ OR PREVIOUS QJ OR RJ WAS TRANSMITTED TO UPDATE TO HARDCOPY SENT, A SUBSEQUENT QJ OR RJ CANNOT BE USED TO CHANGE THE HARDCOPY SENT BACK TO NO HARDCOPY. INSTEAD THE FILER MUST CONTACT THE PROTEST PROCESSING TEAM AT THE PORT WHERE THE PROTEST WAS FILED AND REQUEST CUSTOMS MANUALLY UPDATE THE RECORD.

ADJ:	ISSUER CODE REQUIRED

THIS MESSAGE IS GENERATED DURING ENTRY SUMMARY TRANSACTIONS. IF THE MOT IS 10 OR 11, AND THE ISSUER CODE OF THE MASTER BILL OF LADING REPORTED IN THE 22 RECORD, POSITIONS 70-73, IS SPACES, THIS ERROR WILL RESULT. WHEN THIS FIELD IS SPACES AND THE MOT IS 20, 30 OR 40, NO ERROR MESSAGE WILL BE GENERATED.

EIX:	ALLOWANCE/CHARGE DESCR REQUIRED

THIS MESSAGE IS GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO AN AUTOMATED INVOICE TRANSMISSION (APPLICATION CI). ALLOWANCE/CHARGE DATA IS TRANSMITTED IN THE C17 AND C18 RECORD. THE FREE-FORM DESCRIPTION OF THE CHARGE DESCRIBED BY THE ALLOWANCE/CHARGE INDICATOR TRANSMITTED IN POS 4 OF THE C17 RECORD IS TRANSMITTED IN THE C18 REC, POS 30-64.THIS FIELD CANNOT BE BLANK. IF NO DATA IS TRANSMITTED IN THIS ELEMENT, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL BE GENERATED.

DCJ:	FUTURE DATE INVALID

IN THE DRAWBACK MODULE THIS ERROR MESSAGE MEANS THAT THE DATE GIVEN IS GREATER THAN THE SYSTEM DATE (TODAY'S DATE). SINCE THE CANADIAN IMPORT WOULD HAVE HAD TO BE ALREADY FILED, THIS WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE.

DKM:	INVALID CANADIAN TARIFF FORMAT

CANADIAN TARIFF NUMBERS ARE THE SAME FORMAT AS OUR HS NUMBERS, 10 NUMERIC CHARACTERS WITH NO ALPHA OR SPECIAL CHARACTERS. FOR MEXICO, SHOULD MEXICO DECIDE TO GO WITH A TARIFF NUMBER OF LESS THAN 10 POSITIONS, THE NUMBER SHOULD INCLUDE TRAILING ZEROES TO FILL OUT THE 10 NUMERICS.

VBZ:	DT HS7: INVALID TIRE CODE

IF A TIRE CODE (RECORD DT01, POS 38-40) IS TRANSMITTED WITH A SPACE IN ONE OF THE THREE CHARACTERS, THIS MESSAGE WILL RESULT. THE CODE MUST CONTAIN SOME COMBINATION OF THREE NUMBERS OR LETTERS. SINCE DOT GIVES OUT 2-CHARACTER CODES THE FILER MUST ADD EITHER A LEADING OR TRAILING ZERO.

23H:	BOND SANCTION IN EFFECT

THIS MESSAGE INDICATES THAT A SANCTION HAS BEEN PLACED AGAINST THE INDIVIDUAL BOND TRANSMITTED BY THE FILER.

4D8:	BANNED IMPORT FROM COUNTRY

THIS MERCHANDISE FROM THE COUNTRY IN QUESTION MAY NOT BE ENTERED. THIS MESSAGE ALSO APPEARS WHEN THERE IS A "BANNED" STATUS IN THE QUOTA FILE. THE TARIFF NUMBER FROM THE COUNTRY IN QUESTION MAY POSSIBLY BE ENTERED UNDER A CHAPTER 99 PROVISION. CHECK THE ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGES FOR THE PRODUCT IN QUESTION. CHECK THE QUOTA QUERY FOR "BANNED" IN STATUS COLUMN.

AQX:	LEAD PROTEST NBR NOT ON FILE.

THE NUMBER ENTERED IN THE LEAD PROTEST NUMBER FIELD IS NOT A VALID CUSTOMS ASSIGNED PROTEST NUMBER.

EJX:	UNITS MUST BE IN ORDER

THIS MESSAGE IS GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO AN AUTOMATED INVOICE TRANSMISSION (APPLICATION CI). SHIPPING UNIT IDENTIFICATIONS CAN BE MADE AT TWO LEVELS, IN THE C06/C07 RECORD AND/OR THE C47/C49 RECORDS. IN EITHER CASE, THE OUTER SHIPPING UNIT (USUALLY A CONTAINER) IS IDENTIFIED IN THE C06 RECORD. IF INTERIOR PACKAGING ENTITIES ARE SEPARATELY IDENTIFIED WITHIN A CONTAINER, THOSE IDENTIFIERS ARE REPORTED IN THE C07/C49 REC. EACH OF THESE RECORDS PROVIDES SPACE TO REPORT ONE OR TWO INTERIOR PACKAGING UNIT IDENTIFIERS (OR A RANGE OF IDENTIFIERS). THE INTERIOR PACKAGING IDENTIFERS MUST BE UNIQUE AND MUST BE REPORTED IN ORDER. THAT IS, THE C07 REC, POS 4-20, IS USED TO REPORT THE FIRST PACKAGING IDENTIFIER. THE NUMBER IN THIS FIELD MUST BE DIFFERENT FROM THE UNIT IDENTIFIER IN POS 21-37. FURTHER, DATA CANNOT BE TRANSMITTED IN POS 21-37 UNLESS POS 4-20 IS USED FIRST. WHEN REPORTING RANGES, THE NUMBER OF DIGITS IN THE HIGHEST RANGE MUST BE FOLLOWED FOR ALL RANGES (USE 0001 TO 0800 IF THE HIGHEST NUMBER IN THE RANGE IS 4000, NOT 1 TO 800, 801 TO 1600, FOR EXAMPLE).

48A:	CONSIGNEE IS FOREIGN BASED

THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE THAT OCCURS WHEN A FILER SENDS A FOREIGN BASED CONSIGNEE IN A SELECTIVITY TRANSACTION. IT WARNS THE FILER THAT THE ADDRESS FOR THE CONSIGNEE NUMBER IS NOT A U.S. ADDRESS. IN THE FDA INTERFACE THE FDA'S SYSTEM WILL AUTOMATICALLY REJECT THIS TYPE OF CONSIGNEE AND SEND A 'DT' REJECT BACK TO THE FILER. THE FILER MUST THEN OBTAIN A FDA ESTABLISHMENT IDENTIFIER NUMBER (FEI) FROM FDA THROUGH ABI AND SEND THAT NUMBER IN AN OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCY CORRECTION TRANSACTION (CP). THIS MESSAGE IS FOLLOWED BY THE INFORMATIONAL MESSAGE 42F "DATA ADDED WITH WARNINGS".

EJF:	NAME OF DECLARANT REQUIRED

THIS MESSAGE IS GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO AN AUTOMATED INVOICE TRANSACTION (APPLICATION CI). THE C95 RECORD IS PROVIDED TO ENABLE THE FILER TO TRANSMIT A "SIGNATURE" FOR THE INVOICE. THE FIELD IS CALLED "DECLARANT" AND IS REPORTED IN POS 5-36.IF THIS ELEMENT IS LEFT BLANK, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL BE GENERATED.

ADV:	RELSE DATE EXCEEDS 7-DAY PERIOD

IN A CONSOLIDATED ENTRY TRANSACTION, THE NUMBER OF DAYS BETWEEN THE EARLIEST ENTRY AND THE LATEST ENTRY CANNOT EXCEED SEVEN DAYS.

1I6:	DUTY COMP DATE > SCH PAY DATE

THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL RESULT IF THE DATE TRANSMITTED BY THE ABI FILER IN SUMMARY INPUT IS GREATER (LATER) THAN THE DATE REPRESENTING THE SCHEDULED PAYMENT DUE DATE. THE MOST COMMON EXAMPLE OF THIS CONDITION IS WHEN A FILER TRANSMITS AN "ESTIMATED ENTRY  DATE" (10 REC, POS 50-55) THAT IS LATER THAN THE PAYMENT DUE DATE (30 REC, POS 54-59).

FD2:	PRODUCT CODE INVALID

PRODUCT CODE INVALID: IT CAN ONLY CONTAIN NUMERIC, ALPHA, OR HYPHENS IN POSITIONS 4 & 5. SPACES ARE NOT ALLOWED IN ANY POSITIONS.

BR7:	DUPLICATE FEE CLASS CODE

AT LEAST ONE OF THE FEE CLASS CODES GIVEN ON THE 'R21' OR 'R89' RECORDS VIA THE ABI 'RA' TRANSACTION HAS BEEN DUPLICATED FOR THAT RECONCILIATION. FOR THE 'R21' RECORDS, NO FEE CLASS CODE CAN BE DUPLICATED WITHIN THE SAME 'R21' RECORD OR ADDITIONAL 'R21' RECORDS FOR THE SAME IMPORT ENTRY GIVEN IN THE 'R20' RECORD. FOR THE 'R89' RECORD, NO FEE CLASS CODE CAN BE DUPLICATED FOR THE SAME RECONCILIATION SUMMARY.

RBL:	RECON EXISTS - REPLACE OR DELETE

THE RECON ALREADY EXISTS ON CUSTOMS FILE AND THE FILER HAS ATTEMPTED AN 'A' TRANSACTION. FILER MUST PERFORM AN 'R' IF THE RECON IS ALREADY IN CUSTOMS STATUS, OR IS IN REJECTED STATUS. IF THE RECON ENTRY IS STILL IN ABI STATUS, THE FILER MAY TRANSMIT A 'D' TO DELETE THE RECON. NOTE: IF THIS ERROR MESSAGE IS RECEIVED, OFTEN THE FILER WILL ALSO RECEIVE ERROR MESSAGE BRH 'OTHER RECON ALREADY ON FILE' FOR ALL THE ASSOCIATED IMPORT ENTRIES. CORRECTING ERROR RBL WILL ALSO CORRECT ERROR BRH.

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.

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.

VDI:	CNSL ENTRY MPF CALC NOT PERFORMED

A CONSOLIDATED ENTRY SUMMARY IS A COLLECTION OF TWO OR MORE SELECTIVITY RELEASES. THESE RELEASES MEET THE CRITERIA FOR CONSOLIDATION UNDER ONE ENTRY SUMMARY (A "CONSOLIDATED" ENTRY). EACH LINE OF THE CONSOLIDATED SUMMARY REPRESENTS A DIFFERENT RELEASE AND IS SUBJECT TO THE CALCULATED MERCHANDISE PROCESSING FEE. (MPF). ACS CANNOT EDIT THE ACCURACY OF THE MPF TRANSMITTED UNDER A CONSOLIDATED ENTRY SUMMARY AND WILL GENERATE THIS WARNING MESSAGE. THE MPF FIGURES TRANSMITTED WILL BE MANUALLY VERIFIED BY CUSTOMS.

EJ5:	UNIT PRC/PYMNT TERMS INCONSISTENT

CONCERNING ABI CI, IF THE PAYMENT TERMS TYPE ON THE C02 RECORD IS '15' (NO CHARGE), THE UNIT PRICE ON THE C33 RECORD MUST BE ZERO. IF OTHER PAYMENT TERMS ARE USED ON THE C02 RECORD, THE UNIT PRICE MUST BE GREATER THAN ZERO. THIS MESSAGE IS ALMOST ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED BY ERROR MESSAGE EJ4.

VPN:	D02 RECORD MUST CONTAIN DATA

THIS ERROR MESSAGE OCCURS IN THE NAFTA DUTY DERERRAL MODULE WHEN A D02 RECORD, OPTIONAL RECORD THAT CONTAINS THE CF4811 DATA AND BROKER REFERENCE NUMBER, IS SENT BUT CONTAINS NO DATA.

SG1:	CANADA SUGAR CERT REQUIRED

THE CANADIAN SUGAR CERTIFICATE DATA IS REQUIRED VIA THE 'EI' 52 RECORD OR FOR THE ENTRY LINE (ON-LINE) BECAUSE THE C/O AND C/E IS CANADA, THE TARIFF NUMBER IS ONE OF THOSE REQUIRING THE CERTIFICATE AND BOTH THE DUTY-COMP AND EXPORT DATES ARE ON OR AFTER JUNE 1, 1999.

VA9:	FW 3-177: FWS VALUE EXCEEDS USCS

HI APPLICATION: THE FWS LINE ITEM VALUES EXPRESSED IN THE FW01 RECORD(S) POS 63-72 CANNOT EXCEED THE LINE ITEM VALUE IN THE H5 RECORD POS 45-54. ADDITIONALLY, THE TOTAL FWS LINE ITEM VALUES FOR ALL LINES CANNOT EXCEED THE TOTAL VALUE IN THE H2 RECORD, POS 29-38. EI APPLICATION: THE FWS LINE ITEM VALUES EXPRESSED IN THE FW01 RECORD(S) CANNOT EXCEED THE LINE ITEM VALUE EXPRESSED IN THE 40 RECORD POS 8-17, OR IN THE 70, 80, OR 81 REC, POS 69-78.

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