ABI Error Message

B22:	MID ALREADY EXISTS

THIS REJECT MESSAGE OCCURS IN THE $I (ADD MANUFACTURER) TRANSACTION WHEN A FILER ATTEMPTS TO SEND A MANUFACTURER NAME AND ADDRESS THAT IS ALREADY ON FILE.

04A:	INVALID BL NBR FOR PAIRED CITIES

BILL OF LADING NUMBER ENTERED MUST BE VALID (NOT SPACES OR NON-NUMERIC) FOR PAIRED CITIES.

VGU:	FDA 701:FDA NOTIFICATION NOT REQD

THIS ERROR MESSAGE RESULTS WHEN A FILER ATTEMPTS TO SEND FDA DATA FOR A TARIFF NUMBER THAT IS CODED IN THE HARMONIZED DATA BASE AS AN 'FD0" (FDA NOT REQUIRED). FDA DOES NOT WANT INFORMATION FOR THESE TARIFF NUMBERS.

AEX:	PIRP NUMBER REVOKED

THIS MESSAGE OCCURS WHEN A FILER SENDS A PRE-IMPORTATION RULING NUMBER (PIRP IN POSITIONS 3-8 OF THE EI 43 RECORD THAT HAS BEEN REVOKED.

07C:	PC:INVALID CARRIER CODE

ENTRY IS PAIRED CITIES. A CARRIER CODE WAS SUBMITTED FOR VALIDATION AND IT WAS NOT FOUND ON THE CARRIER CODE FILE.

VL1:	DBK IMPORT ENTRY DATE INVALID

THIS DRAWBACK MODULE ERROR MESSAGE MEANS THAT THE DATE GIVEN ON THE DISKETTE WAS NOT A VALID DATE IN YYMMDD (IN Y2K YYYYMMDD) FORMAT. THE ACTUAL DATE OF ENTRY IS NOT VALIDATED.

0LL:	VISA NUMBER INVALID

MANY COUNTRIES ADHERE TO A STANDARD CONVENTION IN CREATING VISA NUMBERS. THE CURRENT CONVENTION IS: 9 CHARACTERS, WITH THE FIRST CHARACTER A NUMERIC TO REPRESENT THE LAST DIGIT OF THE CALENDAR YEAR; THE SECOND AND THIRD CHARACTERS ARE ALPHA AND REPRESENT THE ISO CODE OF THE COUNTRY WHERE THE VISA WAS ISSUED. THE LAST SIX CHARACTERS ARE NUMERIC AND REPRESENT THE ACTUAL VISA NUMBER. FOR COUNTRIES WHICH USE THE STANDARD VISA NUMBERING SYSTEM, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL RESULT IF THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS APPLY TO THE TRANSMITTED VISA NUMBER: - THE FIRST DIGIT IS BLANK OR DOES NOT EQUAL THE YEAR OF EXPORT. - THE ISO CODE IS INVALID (NOT LISTED ON THE COUNTRY CODE DATABASE), IS MISSING OR DOES NOT EQUAL THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN (WITH SOME EXCEPTIONS FOR HK) - THE NUMERIC PART (LAST SIX CHARACTERS) IS NOT EXACTLY SIX CHARACTERS. - THE LAST SIX CHARACTERS DO NOT REPRESENT THE ACTUAL VISA NUMBER THAT WAS TRANSMITTED BY THE ISSUING COUNTRY. THESE ARE ELECTRONICALLY REPORTED (ELVIS) TO U.S. CUSTOMS AND, IF NOT ON FILE WHEN THE FILER TRANSMITS HIS DATA, WILL CAUSE THIS ERROR MESSAGE TO BE INVOKED.

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).

BR9:	PAY AMOUNTS MISMATCH (R17:R90)

THE PAYMENT AMOUNTS OF DUTY, TAX, OR FEES MUST EQUAL THE TOTAL RECON DUTY, OR FEES FROM THE 'R90' MINUS THE ORIGINAL DUTY, TAX, FEES, RESPECTIVELY, FOR THE 'R90' RECORD. IF THE CALCULATION YIELDS ZERO OR A NEGATIVE, THE CORRESPONDING 'R17' AMOUNT SHOULD BE ZERO.

2A4:	CARGO RELEASE DATA CERTIFIED

RELEASE DATA CERTIFIED

VBE:	FW 3-177: INVLD SPECIE NAME GENUS

IF XXXX IS USED FOR THE SPECIES CODE IN REC FW01, POS 5 - 8, THE SCIENTIFIC NAME GENUS (REC FW01, POS 9-26) IS MANDATORY. IF THE SPECIES CODE IS OTHER THAN XXXX, THE FIELD FOR THE SCIENTIFIC NAME GENUS MUST BE BLANK. THE LANGUAGE IN THE ERROR MESSAGE VBE IS INACCURATE. IT SHOULD READ "INVLD SCIENT NAME GENUS". (NOTE: WHEN XXXX IS USED FOR THE SPECIES CODE, THE COMMON NAME SPECIFIC (RECORD FW02, POS 5-22) AND THE COMMON NAME GENERAL (RECORD FW02, POS 23-40) ARE ALSO MANDATORY.

4KM:	SPI F - NON-QUOTA

THE "F" SPECIAL PROGRAM INDICATOR WITH A TEXTILE TARIFF NUMBER AND AN ELIGIBLE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN EXEMPTS THE LINE FROM QUOTA. A FOLKLORE EXEMPTION CERTIFICATE SHOULD BE PRESENTED WITH THE ENTRY. FOR ABI PURPOSES, THIS INDICATOR CAN ONLY BE TRANSMITTED ON A TYPE 02 ENTRY. IF ANY OTHER ENTRY TYPE (EXCEPT 07) IS USED, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL RESULT.

549:	INVALID COLLECTION. MODE/PAY TYPE/DATE

THIS MESSAGE ARISES FROM AN ATTEMPT BY A NON-AUTHORIZED FILER TO SCHEDULE AN ENTRY SUMMARY FOR PAYMENT VIA STATEMENT PROCESSING. IF THE FILER IS IN TEST STATUS (OR IN OPERATIONAL SUMMARY STATUS, BUT NOT YET IN OPERATIONAL OR TEST STATUS FOR STATEMENT PROCESSING), AND SENDS AN EI APPLICATION TO ABI WITH THE PAYMENT TYPE (30 REC, POS 53) AND PAYMENT DUE DATE (EI REC, POS 54-59) COMPLETED, THIS ERROR WILL RESULT.

ARD:	SURETY CERTIFICATION N/A

EITHER THE PROTESTANT IS NOT A SURETY, THE INDICATOR TRANSMITTED WAS A LETTER OR CHARACTER OTHER THAN "Y", OR THE SURETY CERTIFICATION WAS INCORRECTLY USED AS PART OF AN AMENDMENT, ADDENDA, OR SERVICE REQUEST TRANSMISSION.

8VQ:	FATAL DATABASE ERROR

THIS MESSAGE IS SIMILIAR TO '999' "DB ERROR HAS OCCURRED". THERE IS AN INTERNAL ACS PROBLEM WITH THE PROGRAM. DRAWBACK DISKS WILL ONLY BE REJECTED FOR THIS ERROR AFTER USCS HAS RESEARCHED THE PROBLEM TO DETERMINE IF IT IS DISK RELATED. ABI WILL REJECT THE DATA TRANSMISSION.

WT1:	R89 RECS NOT PROPERLY UTILIZED

EACH R89 RECORD CAN ACCOMMODATE 3 FEE CLASS CODES. THIS IS AN ACS PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENT, I.E. SPACE ALLOCATION MUST BE OPTIMIZED. EXAMPLE WT1 ERROR: IF 2 R89 RECORDS ARE SUBMITTED AND THE FIRST CONTAINS TWO FEE CLASS CODES AND THE SECOND R89 CONTAINS 1 FEE CLASS CODE, ALL OF THE FEE CLASS CODES SHOULD HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED ON ONE R89 RECORD.

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).

ASD:	SEQUENCE NUMBER ERROR

SEQUENCE NUMBER ERROR. ENTRIES AND LINES OF NARRATIVE MUST BE LISTED IN ASCENDING ORDER FROM 0001 TO 9999. THIS MESSAGE MAY BE RETURNED IF AN ENTRY OR LINE OF NARRATIVE WAS ASSIGNED A NUMBER OUT OF SEQUENCE.

8WF:	INVALID RESULTS REQUEST CODE

THIS ERROR MESSAGE IS GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO A BILL OF LADING UPDATE TRANSACTION (APPLICATION LN). IF THE L1 REC, POS 19, HAS A VALUE OF EITHER 'Y' OR 'N' (INDICATING WHETHER OR NOT THE FILER WISHES TO HAVE ABI INDICATE IF A MATCH IN AMS WAS FOUND WITH THE BILL OF LADING OR AIR WAYBILL NUMBER IN THE INPUT), ABI WILL ACCEPT THE INPUT. ANY OTHER CHARACTER TRANSMITTED IN POS 19 OF THE L1 RECORD WILL GENERATE THIS ERROR MESSAGE (INCLUDING A BLANK).

89T:	HMF REQUIRED

THIS ENTRY REQUIRES A HARBOR MAINTENANCE FEE BASED UPON MOT OF "12".

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.

99B:	AG LICENSE REQUIRED

AN AGRICULTURE LICENSE MUST BE ENTERED IF THE FIRST TARIFF NUMBER ON THE LINE IS WITHIN THE FOLLOWING CONSTRAINTS, '99041009' THRU '99041021' INCLUSIVE OR '99041027' THRU '99041060' INCLUSIVE. THIS MESSAGE IS ALSO GENERATED WHEN AN AGRICULTURAL LICENSE IS NOT SENT ON A TARIFF LINE THAT REQUIRES ONE. THE AGRICULTURAL LICENSE IS SENT IN THE 51 RECORD, POSITIONS 38-47.

40O:	FAS SPI ORIG CTRY NOT = EXP CNTRY

IF AN ENTRY CLAIMS A FREELY ASSOCIATED STATES SPI (Z), THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND THE COUNTRY OF EXPORT MUST BE THE SAME.

RBU:	RECON FILER NOT ON FILE

THIS MESSAGE MEANS THAT THE FILER CODE GIVEN ON THE RECONCILIATION DOES NOT EXIST IN ACS.

999:	DB ERROR HAS OCCURRED

THIS MESSAGE TELLS US THAT THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH THE ACS DATABASE, OR THAT SOMETHING CAUSED THE PROGRAM TO "BLOW UP. "DRAWBACK DISKS WILL ONLY BE REJECTED FOR THIS ERROR AFTER  USCS HAS RESEARCHED THE PROBLEM TO DETERMINE IF IT IS DISK RELATED. ABI WILL REJECT THE DATA TRANSMISSION.

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