CBP Issues CATAIR Amendment 10 (July 2006)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site Amendment 10, dated July 31, 2006, to the Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) document.
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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
Record Identifier IB (Output) - made edits in data element "Bill of Lading Status Indicator" and added "Note 2."
Appendix N - Disposition Codes
Three three-character codes were removed.
(In mid-July 2006, CBP posted CATAIR Amendment 9. See ITT's Online Archives or 07/20/06 news, 06072010, for BP summary of Amendment 9.)
CATAIR, as amended by Amendment 10 (dated July 2006) available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/operations_support/automated_systems/abi/catair/.
List of changes made by Amendment 9 available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/operations_support/automated_systems/abi/catair/changes/changes_102006.ctt/changes_102006.doc.