Automated Manifest Sytstem (AMS)


ABI Error Message

APF: SIGNATURE CERT. REQUIRED

CERTIFICATION OF SIGNATURE, INDICATED BY AN "X", IS REQUIRED IN LIEU OF A SIGNATURE FOR THE AUTOMATED ENVIRONMENT. 
VDB: INFORMAL FEE CAN'T BE > $2.00

THIS ERROR OCCURS WHEN AN ABI CARGO SELECTIVITY CERTIFIED FILER TRANSMITS AN INFORMAL ENTRY WITH AN INFORMAL FEE4 OF MORE THAN $2.00. THE INFORMAL FEE CANNOT EXCEED $2.00 IF THE FILER IS ABI CARGO SELECTIVITY CERTIFIED.
AGU: RELEASD-CANT UPDATE INVOICE

IF SSA01-RELEASE IS NOT SPACES, AN ASSOCIATED INVOICE CANNOT BE UPDATED. THE ABOVE COMMENT MEANS THAT AN INVOICE INPUT (APPLICATION CI) CANNOT BE TRANSMITTED IF THERE IS A RELEASE DATE ALREADY POSTED TO ANY ENTRY NUMBER ASSOCIATED WITH THE INVOICE.
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.
G9B: REMOTE ENTRY/BOND TYPE CONFLICT

IF THE B RECORD REMOTE ENTRY INDICATOR IS A '1', THE BOND TYPE CODE IN THE ENTRY DATA MUST BE 8.
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).
4NF: NAME/ADDRESS RECORD NOT FOUND

THIS ERROR MESSAGE OCCURS IN THE 'KN' IMPORTER ADDRESS QUERY WHEN A FILER SENDS A NAME AND ADDRESS THAT IS NOT IN THE IMPORTER FILE. A COMMON MISTAKE IS A MISSPELLING OF THE CITY NAME (E.G. LAS VEGASAS).
07S: I.T.//NON I.T. CONFLICT

THIS MESSAGE RESULTS FROM A CARGO RELEASE INPUT TRANSACTION (APPLICATION HI). IF MULTIPLE BILLS OF LADING OR AIR WAYBILLS ARE REPORTED, ALL MUST BE EITHER RELATED TO AN INBOND NUMBER OR NONE CAN BE. IF THE FILER REPORTS ONE BILL WITH AN ASSOCIATED INBOND NUMBER AND DOES NOT INCLUDE INBOND DATA FOR ANY OTHER BILLS REPORTED, THIS MESSAGE WILL RESULT.
ARJ: PROTESTANT NBR NOT ON FILE

A VALID IRS OR CUSTOMS ASSIGNED ID NUMBER PRESENT ON THE CUSTOMS IMPORTER DATABASE IS REQUIRED FOR ALL PROTESTANT TYPES EXCEPT F=FOREIGN AND O=OTHER. THE VALUE SUBMITTED IN THE PROTESTANT NUMBER FIELD DOES NOT EXIST ON THE CUSTOMS IMPORTER FILE.
365: IR TAX NOT APPLICABLE

IF THE TARIFF TAX CODE = '0', THE LINE ITEM INTERNAL REVENUE FIELD MUST BE BLANK . IF THE TARIFF FILE FOR THE REJECTED TARIFF NUMBER DOES NOT INDICATE THAT IRS EXCISE TAXES ARE APPLICABLE, THIS MESSAGE WILL RESULT IF AN ABI FILER TRANSITS IR TAX DATA IN REC 60, POS 59-68. 
EIO: INVALID LOCATION QUALIFIER

THIS MESSAGE IS GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO AN AUTOMATED INVOICE TRANSACTION (APPLICATION CI). THE C13 REC, POS 7-8, PROVIDES FOR THE REPORTING OF ONE OF FOUR VALID LOCATION QUALIFIER CODES. THE VALID CODES ARE LISTED ON PAGE AII-23 OF THE CATAIR. THE USE OF ANY OTHER CODE, INCLUDING BLANKS, IN THIS FIELD, WILL GENERATE THIS ERROR MESSAGE. SO REQUIRED TO BE TRANSMITTED IN THE C09-C11 RECORDS. IF THE NAME ELEMENT IN THE C09 REC, POS 4-38, IS LEFT BLANK, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL BE GENERATED.
ARX: NOTIFY DP/FLR/OFFICE REQ'D

A BLANK OR INCORRECT SUBSTITUTE RECORD WAS TRANSMITTED. THE DDPP/FILER CODE OFFICE CODE OF THE SUBSTITUTE MUST BE SENT AND A MATCH FOUND IN THE ABI PROFILE .
CF1: FEI NOT FOUND ON ACS

THE FEI NUMBER (FDA ESTABLISHMENT IDENTIFIER) QUERIED IS NOT ON FILE IN THE FILE RESIDENT IN ACS. THIS IS A FROM A 'Q' INDICATOR AS OPPOSED TO AN 'A' (ADD) INDICATOR. 
G9A: REMOTE ENTRY/I.T. CONFLICT

IF THE B REC REMOTE ENTRY INDICATOR IS A '1', THE ENTRY DATA CANNOT CONTAIN I.T. NUMBER OF ANY OF THE POSSIBLE FORMATS IN ANY OF THE HA OR OM RECORDS.  
EJV: INBOX IND MUST BE 'R' OR SPACE

THIS ERROR MESSAGE IS GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO AN AUTOMATED INVOICE TRANSACTION (APPLICATION CI). THE C01 REC, POS 56, PROVIDES THE FILER AN OPPORTUNITY TO INDICATE IF THE INVOICE BEING TRANSMITTED IS AN INITIAL INPUT (SPACE FILL THE POSITION) OR IS IN RESPONSE TO AN ABI REJECTION FROM CUSTOMS WHICH REQUESTED THE TRANSMISSION OF THE INSTANT INVOICE. IN THE LATTER CASE, THE ACCEPTABLE VALUE FOR THIS FIELD IS "R". ANY OTHER CHARACTER TRANSMITTED IN THIS FIELD WILL GENERATE THIS ERROR MESSAGE.
VHJ: DT HS7: BOND (SURETY) NOT ON FILE

IF BOX 03 IS USED (REC. DT01, POS 8-9,) THE DOT BOND MUST BE REPRESENTED BY A VALID SURETY CODE FROM THE SURETY DATA FILE. ABI DOES NOT EDIT THE SURETY CODE IN THIS FIELD TO SEE IF IT MATCHES THE SURETY CODE IN THE 10 RECORD OF THE SUMMARY INPUT.
AD9: OVERLAPPING INVOICE LINE RANGE

THIS MESSAGE OCCURS WHEN AN EI 42 RECORD IS SENT WITH OVERLAPPING INVOICE LINE RANGES. FOR EXAMPLE, IF INVOICE A IS SENT WITH A BEGINNING AND ENDING RANGE 0001-0004 AND INVOICE B HAS A BEGINNING AND ENDING RANGE OF 0004-0008, THIS MESSAGE WILL OCCUR BECAUSE '0004' OVERLAP. 
EIR: LOCATION CODED NOT ALLOWED

THIS MESSAGE IS GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO AN AUTOMATED INVOICE TRANSMISSION (APPLICATION CI). IF DATA IS PROVIDED IN THE C13 REC, POS 11-15 (WHICH IS USED TO TRANSMIT A LOCATION CODE OF UP TO FIVE CHARACTERS), THEN THE LOCATION CODE INDICATOR IN POS 9-10 OF THIS RECORD MUST CONTAIN ONE OF THE THREE ALLOWABLE INDICATORS, AS LISTED ON PAGE AII-22 OF THE CATAIR. IF THE LOCATION CODE INDICATOR IS BLANK, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL BE GENERATED. THIS MESSAGE APPLIES TO THE C43 RECORD, AS WELL.
79M: TARIFF NBR NOT ON DATABASE

TARIFF NBR IS NOT FOUND ON EITHER THE HARMONIZED DATABASE. THE MOST COMMON CAUSE FOR THIS ERROR MESSAGE IS THAT A RECENT CHANGE TO THE TARIFF NUMBER HAS OCCURRED AND THE FILER HAS NOT RETRIEVED THE CHANGE. FILERS MUST KEEP UP WITH ALL HARMONIZED UPDATES IN ORDER TO KNOW WHICH TARIFF NUMBERS ARE VALID. IF THE TARIFF NUMBER RECEIVING THIS MESSAGE IS NO LONGER VALID, THE FILER SHOULD DO A HARMONIZED RANGE QUERY THROUGH ABI AND SHOULD EXAMINE THE DESCRIPTION RECORDS OF THE TARIFF NUMBERS RETURNED IN THE QUERY RESULTS TO DETERMINE WHICH TARIFF NUMBER IS THE REPLACEMENT FOR THE REJECTED TARIFF NUMBER.
ASK: MERCHANDISE DESC. REQUIRED

A SPECIFIC COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION OF THE MERCHANDISE AFFECTED BY THE DECISION AS TO WHICH PROTEST, PETITION, OR INTERVENTION IS MADE MUST BE INCLUDED AT TIME OF INITIAL FILING. THE P71 RECORD IS MISSING OR BLANK. 
8VZ: BILL DATA UPDATED AS REQUESTED

THIS MESSAGE IS AN "ERROR FREE" NOTIFICATION TO THE FILER THAT A BILL OF LADING UPDATE 'LN' TRANSACTION WAS SUCCESSFUL. A SUCCESSFUL BOL UPDATE MEANS THAT THE UPDATE INFORMATION HAS BEEN PASSED TO THE AMS CARRIER AND THAT THE SELECTIVITY FILE HAS BEEN UPDATED.
VC9: MPF SURCHARGE NOT REQUIRED

THIS MESSAGE IS GENERATED IN RESPONSE TO AN ENTRY SUMMARY INPUT TRANSACTION (APPLICATION EI). FILERS WHO HAVE ABE RECORDS ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES THAT INDICATE OPERATIONAL STATUS FOR CARGO RELEASE OR BORDER CARGO RELEASE ARE NOT REQUIRED TO DEPOSIT THE MANUAL MPF SURCHARGE. IF THE FILER TRANSMITS CLASS CODE 500 WITH $2.00 ON ANY ENTRY AFTER OBTAINING OPERATIONAL CARGO STATUS, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL RESULT.
10U: RECORD NOT FOUND

FILERS WHO USE APPLICATION HI TO TRANSMIT CARGO RELEASE DATA MAY USE BOND TYPE CODE "8" (CONTINUOUS BOND) OR "9" (SINGLE TRANSACTION BOND). BOND TYPES ARE TRANSMITTED IN THE H1 REC, POS 40. IF BOND TYPE 9 IS ELECTED, THE FILER IS REQUIRED TO TRANSMIT A SURETY CODE (H1 REC, POS 71-73). IF THE SURETY CODE TRANSMITTED IS IN "REVOKED" STATUS, THIS ERROR MESSAGE WILL RESULT.
AQ0: NO FILING PERIOD BASE DATE

WHEN A FILING/AMENDMENT BASIS INDICATOR IS USED, A FILING PERIOD BASE DATE REQUIRED. THE FILING PERIOD BASE DATE IS BLANK.
51A: INFORMAL ENTRY HAS TOO HIGH VALUE

VALUE LIMIT FOR ALL INFORMAL ENTRIES IS $2000, EXCEPT FOR 'AMERICAN GOODS RETURNED' IN CHAPTER 98 AND "PERSONAL" SHIPMENTS (INDICATOR "P" IS SENT BY THE FILER IN THE 30 REC, POS 39). SELECTED TARIFF NUMBERS ARE ALSO SUBJECT TO DOLLAR LIMITATIONS FOR INFORMAL ENTRIES AS LISTED IN APPENDIX K OF THE CATAIR, PAGE K-3. SEE ALSO ERROR MESSAGE 51D. FOR AMERICAN GOODS RETURNED ENTRIES, USING TARIFF 98010010NN ONLY, THE VALUE LIMIT IS $10,000. FOR INFORMAL ENTRIES USING "P", THERE IS NO VALUE LIMIT EXCEPT AS MENTIONED ABOVE IN APPENDIX K FOR CERTAIN TEXTILE PRODUCTS.

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