CSMS Message: 08-000003

REFER TO ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE NUMBER 07-0246, DATED
11/03/2007, ADVISING YOU OF A CHANGE TO THE METHOD THAT CBP
COMMUNICATES ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGES TO ABI FILERS.

PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT EFFECTIVE ON FEBRUARY 11, 2008, CBP
WILL ISSUE ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGES VIA THE CARGO SYSTEMS
MESSAGING SERVICE (CSMS). INTERESTED PARTIES WILL BE ABLE
TO SEARCH A DATABASE ON CBP.GOV TO VIEW ALL MESSAGES THAT
HAVE BEEN ISSUED.

AS STATED IN THE ABOVE CITED ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE, ANY
MEMBER OF THE TRADE MAY ALSO SUBSCRIBE TO RECEIVE THESE
MESSAGES VIA EMAIL. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SUBSCRIBING
GO TO:

HTTP://WWW.CBP.GOV/XP/CGOV/TOOLBOX/ABOUT/MODERNIZATION
/WHATS NEW/PLANS LAUNCH NMBS.XML

NOTE THAT THERE ARE NO SPACES IN THIS URL. THERE IS AN
UNDERLINE CHARACTER BETWEEN THE WORDS 'WHATS' AND 'NEW',
AND BETWEEN THE WORDS 'PLANS', 'LAUNCH' AND 'NMBS'.

CBP HAS CONVERTED ALL SIGNIFICANT ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGES
PREVIOUSLY ISSUED VIA ABI (APPLICATION IDENTIFIER MR). THE
LENGTH OF THE MESSAGE NUMBER HAS BEEN INCREASED AND IS NOW
TWO DIGITS LONGER THAN THE NUMBER ISSUED BY ABI APPLICATION
MR. TWO ADDITIONAL ZEROS HAVE BEEN INSERTED FOLLOWING THE
HYPHEN FOR ALL OF THE CONVERTED MESSAGES. THE FORMAT OF
THE MESSAGE NUMBER FOR ALL MESSAGES ISSUED VIA THE NEW CSMS
WILL BE YY-NNNNNN, WHERE YY IS THE LAST TWO DIGITS OF THE
CALENDAR YEAR AND NNNNNN IS A SEQUENTIALLY ASSIGNED NUMBER.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT BEGINNING MONDAY FEBRUARY 11, 2008, NO
NEW ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGES WILL BE ISSUED VIA ABI
APPLICATION MR, NOR WILL ABI ACCEPT AN ADMINISTRATIVE
MESSAGE QUERY VIA APPLICATION MI.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTION REGARDING THIS MESSAGE PLEASE
CONTACT YOUR ASSIGNED CLIENT REPRESENTATIVE.