CBP Posts Revised Automation Requirements For its Voluntary Test of the Electronic FTZ Admission Application Program
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a revised version of its automation requirements for its voluntary test of the submission of electronic Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) admission applications, including record layouts, mandatory fields, error messages, and other programming details.
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These revised automation requirements take the form of a chapter (dated September 2005) to the Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR).
CBP had originally posted its automation requirements for its voluntary test of the submission of electronic FTZ admission applications on August 26, 2005. (See ITT's Online Archives or 09/01/05 news, 05090105, for BP summary.)
(On August 19, 2005, CBP published a general notice regarding its plan to conduct a voluntary test of the Electronic FTZ Admission Application Program. The test is currently limited to FTZ admission applications for merchandise reported to CBP via air, sea and rail manifest and will begin no earlier than September 30, 2005. According to CBP, the Electronic FTZ Admission Application Program will permit a participant to submit an electronic version of the CBP Form 214 (FTZ Admission and/or Status Designation) to CBP via the Automated Broker Interface (ABI) of the Automated Commercial System (ACS). See ITT's Online Archives or 08/22/05 news, 05082205, for BP summary of CBP's general notice.)
A comparison of the August and September 2005 versions of this CATAIR chapter indicates that most of the changes CBP has made to the chapter are reformatting changes (e.g., to give each record identifier its own page, etc.), although CBP has also made other changes such as expanding Record Identifier FT10 Record Processing, etc.
FTZ automation test requirements (posted 09/12/05) available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/cargo_control/ftz_trade_req.ctt/ftz_trade_req.doc.