CSMS Message: 92-000369

I. OBJECTIVE

ENTRY DATA (CF3461) AND ENTRY SUMMARY DATA (CF7501) PROVIDED
THROUGH ABI WILL BE REQUIRED TO CONTAIN, UNDER CERTAIN
CIRCUMSTANCES, AN INDICATOR SIGNIFYING THAT THE DATA REPRESENTS A
'PAIRED' ENTRY. THE REQUIREMENT WILL BE IMPOSED WHENEVER THE
DISTRICT OF ENTRY DIFFERS FROM THE DISTRICT OF UNLADING AND THE
ENTRY IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH AN IMMEDIATE TRANSPORTATION (I.T.)
MOVEMENT, INCLUDING AMS PAPERLESS MASTER IN-BONDS. UNDER THESE
CIRCUMSTANCES, FAILURE TO PROVIDE THE PAIRED ENTRY INDICATOR WILL
CAUSE ABI TO REJECT THE ENTRY DATA. NOTE THAT THE NEW YORK AREA
(DISTRICTS 10, 46 AND 47) WILL BE TREATED AS A SINGLE DISTRICT.

II. BACKGROUND

ABI ENTRY DATA (CF3461) NOT CONTAINING AN I.T. NUMBER, BUT
CONTAINING A DISTRICT OF ENTRY AND A DISTRICT OF UNLADING WHICH
DIFFER, IS ACCEPTED INTO ACS ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE ENTRY IS
PAIRED. TWO PROBLEMS OCCUR AS A RESULT OF THIS PROCEDURE:

1) ACS ACCEPTS ERRONEOUS ENTRY DATA WHENEVER THE ABI FILER
INADVERTENTLY FAILS TO PROVIDE I.T. INFORMATION OR TRANSMITS
AN INCORRECT DISTRICT OF UNLADING. (TRANSMITTING AN
INCORRECT DISTRICT OF ENTRY IS LESS LIKELY BECAUSE OF
EXISTING HEADER CONTROL VALIDATIONS.) IN EITHER CASE, THE
REQUIREMENT FOR A PAIRED ENTRY INDICATOR WOULD CAUSE ABI TO
REJECT ENTRIES CONTAINING INVALID DATA, FORCING THE FILER TO
REVIEW THE REJECTED ENTRY DATA AND PROVIDE ACS WITH
CORRECTED DATA.

2) IF THE PAIRED ENTRY PROMPT IS OVERLOOKED DURING CUSTOMS ON-
LINE PROCESSING, A PAIRED ENTRY CAN BE ACCEPTED BY ACS
WITHOUT BEING FLAGGED AS PAIRED. SUBSEQUENTLY, CUSTOMS AT
THE PORT OF UNLADING IS NOT NOTIFIED THAT THE ENTRY WAS
PROCESSED THROUGH CARGO SELECTIVITY. A PAIRED ENTRY
INDICATOR PROVIDED BY THE FILER WOULD PERMIT ACS TO PRELOAD
THE PAIRED PROMPT.

PROVIDING FOR A PAIRED ENTRY INDICATOR IN THE ABI ENTRY SUMMARY
TRANSACTION IS NECESSARY TO ACCOMMODATE FILERS WHO CERTIFY THEIR
SUMMARY DATA FOR CARGO RELEASE PURPOSES. ADDITIONALLY, THE
PAIRED ENTRY INDICATOR WILL BE MANDATORY FOR SUMMARY DATA WHICH
IS NOT CERTIFIED FOR CARGO RELEASE PURPOSES TO FACILITATE BETTER
VALIDATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DISTRICT OF ENTRY, THE
DISTRICT OF UNLADING AND THE I.T. INFORMATION.

REFER TO CUSTOMS DIRECTIVE 3200-18, DATED AUGUST 21, 1987, FOR
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RELATED TO THE PAIRED ENTRY PROGRAM.

III. REQUIREMENTS

THE CARGO RELEASE AND ENTRY SUMMARY SECTIONS OF THE CUSTOMS AND
TRADE AUTOMATED INTERFACE REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT (CATAIR) WILL BE
AMENDED TO REFLECT THE FOLLOWING CHANGES TO THE H1 RECORD OF
APPLICATION RR (CARGO RELEASE) AND THE 20 RECORD OF APPLICATION
EI (ENTRY SUMMARY). THE H1 RECORD IS FOUND ON PAGE CRL-H1-01 OF
THE CATAIR AND THE 20 RECORD IS FOUND ON PAGE ENS-20-01.

A MANDATORY NUMERIC FIELD WILL BE ADDED TO THE H1 INPUT RECORD
AND WILL BE TITLED 'PAIRED ENTRY'. THE PAIRED ENTRY FIELD WILL
BE LOCATED IN POSITION 42, PREVIOUSLY DEFINED AS SPACE FILL.
POSITIONS 43-49 WILL CONTINUE TO BE DEFINED AS SPACE FILL.

A MANDATORY NUMERIC FIELD WILL ALSO BE ADDED TO THE 20 INPUT
RECORD AND WILL ALSO BE TITLED 'PAIRED ENTRY'. THIS PAIRED ENTRY
FIELD WILL BE LOCATED IN POSITION 76, PREVIOUSLY DEFINED AS SPACE
FILL. POSITIONS 77-80 WILL CONTINUE TO BE DEFINED AS SPACE FILL.

FOR BOTH OF THESE NEW FIELDS THE ONLY ALLOWABLE VALUES WILL BE
EITHER 0 (ZERO) OR 1 (ONE); 1 SIGNIFYING THAT THE ENTRY IS A
PAIRED ENTRY, 0 SIGNIFYING THAT PAIRED ENTRY IS NOT APPLICABLE.

IV. PROCESSING DEFINITION

THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF THIS DOCUMENT, UNLESS SPECIFICALLY
NOTED, THE TERM 'ENTRY DATA' WILL REFER TO EITHER: CARGO RELEASE
DATA WHICH IS TRANSMITTED USING ABI APPLICATION 'HI', WHETHER
THAT DATA IS CERTIFIED OR NOT, OR TO ENTRY SUMMARY DATA WHICH IS
TRANSMITTED USING APPLICATION 'EI'; AND AGAIN, WHETHER THAT DATA
IS CERTIFIED FOR CARGO RELEASE PURPOSES OR NOT.

FOR ALL ACS EDITS SPECIFIED BELOW, THE NEW YORK AREA, DISTRICTS
10, 46 AND 47, WILL BE TREATED AS A SINGLE DISTRICT.

ALL ACS HEADER PROGRAMS WHICH PROCESS ABI ENTRY DATA WILL BE
MODIFIED TO VALIDATE THE NEW PAIRED ENTRY INDICATOR. VALIDATION
OF THE PAIRED ENTRY INDICATOR WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL EDITING OF
THE FOLLOWING DATA ELEMENTS, LISTED WITH THEIR ABI RECORD
LOCATIONS (RECORD IDENTIFIER/POSITION):

DATA ELEMENT HI REC/POS EI REC/POS
-------------------- ---------- ----------
DISTRICT OF ENTRY H1 / 4-5 10 / 4-5
DISTRICT OF UNLADING H1 / 65-66 20 / 30-31
IN-BOND NUMBER HA / 3-14 22 / 3-14
PAIRED ENTRY H1 / 42 20 / 76

ALL REJECTIONS OF ABI ENTRY DATA RESULTING FROM THE VALIDATIONS
DETAILED BELOW WILL BE RETURNED USING THE CURRENT CONVENTIONS FOR
FORMATTING THE OUTPUT TRANSACTIONS. FOR ENTRY SUMMARY OUTPUT
(ER), THE ERROR MESSAGE WILL BE RETURNED USING AN E20 RECORD
PRECEDED BY THE 10 RECORD REPEATED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED IN THE
INPUT TRANSACTION (EI). FOR CARGO RELEASE OUTPUT (HR), THE ERROR
MESSAGE WILL BE RETURNED USING AN H6 RECORD PRECEDED BY THE H1
AND H2 RECORDS REPEATED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED IN THE INPUT
TRANSACTION (HI).

IF THE ENTRY DATA CONTAINS ANYTHING OTHER THAN A 0 (ZERO) OR A 1
(ONE) IN THE PAIRED ENTRY FIELD, THE TRANSACTION FOR THAT ENTRY
WILL BE REJECTED AND AN APPROPRIATE ERROR MESSAGE RETURNED.

IF THE ENTRY DATA CONTAINS A VALID I.T. NUMBER OF ANY OF THE
POSSIBLE FORMATS: CONVENTIONAL 9 DIGIT, 11 DIGIT AIR WAYBILL OR
11 CHARACTER PAPERLESS MASTER IN-BOND, THE DATA WILL BE PROCESSED
AS FOLLOWS:

- IF THE PAIRED ENTRY FIELD CONTAINS A 0 (ZERO), THE ENTRY
DATA CAN BE ACCEPTED,

- IF THE PAIRED ENTRY FIELD CONTAINS A 1 (ONE), THE
TRANSACTION FOR THAT ENTRY WILL BE REJECTED AND AN
APPROPRIATE ERROR MESSAGE RETURNED.

IF THE ENTRY DATA DOES NOT CONTAIN AN I.T. NUMBER, THE DATA WILL
BE PROCESSED AS FOLLOWS:

- IF THE PAIRED ENTRY FIELD CONTAINS A 0 (ZERO) AND,

- IF THE DISTRICT OF ENTRY IS EQUAL TO THE DISTRICT OF
UNLADING, THE ENTRY CAN BE ACCEPTED, OR

- IF THE DISTRICT OF ENTRY IS NOT EQUAL TO THE DISTRICT
OF UNLADING, THE TRANSACTION FOR THAT ENTRY WILL BE
REJECTED AND AN APPROPRIATE ERROR MESSAGE RETURNED.

- IF THE PAIRED ENTRY FIELD CONTAINS A 1 (ONE) AND,

- IF THE DISTRICT OF ENTRY IS EQUAL TO THE DISTRICT OF
UNLADING, THE TRANSACTION FOR THAT ENTRY WILL BE
REJECTED AND AN APPROPRIATE ERROR MESSAGE RETURNED, OR

- IF THE DISTRICT OF ENTRY IS NOT EQUAL TO THE DISTRICT
OF UNLADING, THE ENTRY CAN BE ACCEPTED.

V. ADDITIONAL NOTES

THE CHANGES DETAILED ABOVE WILL NOT BE MADE PART OF PRODUCTION
ABI PROCESSING ANY SOONER THAN 90 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS
NOTICE. YOU WILL BE INFORMED BY ADMINISTRATIVE MESSAGE WHEN AN
EXACT DATE IS KNOWN. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS CONCERNING THIS
MESSAGE, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR CLIENT REPRESENTATIVE.

Referenced By

CSMS #92-000425