CBP Issues CATAIR Amendment 8 (June 2006)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site Amendment 8, dated June 2006, to the Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) document.
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(In early June 2006, CBP posted another CATAIR Amendment (Amendment 7). See ITT's Online Archives or 06/13/06 news, 06061310, for BP summary of CATAIR Amendment 7 (June 2006).)
The CATAIR documentation provides complete information on how importers and/or their agents can become ABI participants, as well as how they can provide electronic import information to ABI, and receive transmissions from ABI once they have become a participant. The CATAIR begins with general information about ABI participation along with instructions on how to become an ABI participant. The main body of the CATAIR consists of the data record formats used for conducting electronic data interchange (EDI) between the participant's computer system and CBP's ABI.
According to CBP, the following CATAIR sections have been amended as follows:
Automated Manifest System (AMS) Broker Download
made numerous edits made throughout the chapter.
Appendix Table of Contents
added new Appendix P for FTZ Error Messages. (This change was omitted in Amendment 7.)
CATAIR, as amended by Amendment 8 (dated June 2006) available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/operations_support/automated_systems/abi/catair/.
List of changes made by Amendment 8 available at