| Title: | FUTURE HARMONIZED TARIFF ENHANCEMENTS TO INCORPORATE PGA (PARTICIPATING GOVERNMENT AGENCY) INDICATORS IN THE ABI HTS UPDATE AND QUERY TRANSACTION RECORDS |
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| Date: | 2011-08-29 |
| To: | abi |
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THIS MESSAGE IS BEING SET TO ADVISE THE TRADE ON FUTURE CHANGES TO THE ABI HARMONIZED TARIFF EXTRACT REFERENCE FILE AND TO THE ABI HTS QUERY TRANSACTION RECORDS TO DISPLAY NEW OUTPUT RECORDS THAT WILL IDENTIFY TARIFF NUMBERS THAT HAVE PGA (PARTICIPATING GOVERNMENT AGENCY) INDICATORS ASSOCIACIATED WITH THE TARIFF NUMBER.
THE HTS EXTRACT REFERENCE FILE WILL BE MODIFIED TO DISPLAY A NEW ‘VL’ RECORD IDENTIFIER (OUTPUT) THAT WILL DISPLAY ‘PGA’ INDICATORS ASSOCIATED WITH A TARIFF NUMBER.
THE ‘VL’ RECORD IS A CONDITIONAL RECORD THAT UPDATES DATA IN THE USER’S HTS FILE WHEN THERE ARE PGA INDICTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TARIFF NUMBER.
THE FORMAT OF THE NEW ‘VL’ RECORD IDENTIFIER (OUTPUT) RECORD IS THE FOLLOWING:
DATA ELEMENT L/C POS STAT DESCRIPTION
CONTROL IDENTIFIER 1X 1 M MUST ALWAYS EQUAL 'V'
RECORD IDENTIFIER 1X 2 M MUST ALWAYS EQUAL 'L'
TARIFF NUMBER 10X 3-12 M A CODE LOCATED IN THE HARMONIZED TARIFF
SCHEDULE OF THE U.S ANNOTATED (HTS)
REPRESENTING THE TARIFF NUMBER.
PARTICIPATING 60X 13-72 C CODES THAT INDICATE SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES BY PARTICIPATING GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
MUST OR MAY APPLY. UP TO 20 '3' POSITION
PGA CODES CAN BE PROVIDED.
FILLER 8AN 73-80 M SPACE FILL
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THE HTS QUERY TRANSACTION RECORD(S) PROCESS WILL BE MODIFIED TO DISPLAY A NEW ‘WL’ RECORD IDENTIFIER (OUTPUT) THAT WILL DISPLAY ‘PGA’ INDICATORS ASSOCIATED WITH A TARIFF NUMBER.
THE ‘WL’ RECORD IS A CONDITIONAL RECORD THAT DISPLAYS PGA DATA ASSOCIATED WITH THE USER(S) TARIFF QUERY OUTPUT RECORDS.
THE FORMAT OF THE NEW ‘WL’ RECORD IDENTIFIER (OUTPUT) RECORD IS THE FOLLOWING:
DATA ELEMENT L/C POS STAT DESCRIPTION
CONTROL IDENTIFIER 1X 1 M MUST ALWAYS EQUAL 'W'
RECORD IDENTIFIER 1X 2 M MUST ALWAYS EQUAL 'L'
TARIFF NUMBER 10X 3-12 M A CODE LOCATED IN THE HARMONIZED
SCHEDULE OF THE U.S ANNOTATED (HTS)
REPRESENTING THE TARIFF NUMBER.
PARTICIPATING 60X 13-72 C CODES THAT INDICATE SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES BY PARTICIPATING GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
MUST OR MAY APPLY. UP TO 20 '3' POSITION
PGA CODES CAN BE PROVIDED.
AT THE PRESENT TIME THERE ARE NO ‘PGA’ INDICATORS THAT HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED TO ANY TARIFF NUMBER.
THE ABOVE CHANGES ARE BEING MADE TO ACCOMMODATE ‘FUTURE’ PGA REPORTING ASSOCIATED WITH THE PARTICIPATING GOVERNMENT AGENCY RECORD SET.
THE TRADE WILL BE NOTIFID IN A FUTURE MESSAGE WHEN THE ABOVE CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE.
SYSTEM RELATED QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS MESSAGE MAY BE DIRECTED TO YOUR ASSIGNED CLIENT REPRESENTATIVE OR TO ACS, ATTENTION TONY CASUCCI AT 571-468-5053.
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