CBP Posts Additional ACE ABI CATAIR Chapters/Table of Contents, Updates Previously Issued Chapters
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted three additional chapters and a table of contents to its "ACE ABI CATAIR" document that it is building to replace the current Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) document.
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CBP has also updated the ACE ABI CATAIR Change Record section to include Revision 2 and has posted the chapters that were updated in Revision 2.
New Chapters, Table of Contents Added
CBP has newly posted the following:
Table of Contents - The Table of Contents provides a complete list and brief description of information available for filing entry summary and related data electronically in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) via the Automated Broker Interface (ABI).
Introduction and Getting Started - This chapter provides information for prospective ABI filers to initiate the process to file data electronically with ACE either as a new ACE ABI filer or as an ABI filer transitioning from the Automated Commercial System (ACS) to ACE.
Entry Summary Query - This chapter provides input and output record layouts, data elements, and processing information for ABI filers to query entry summaries in ACE.
Entry Summary Create/Update - This chapter provides record formats and processing instructions to submit entry summary and related information to ACE.
(CBP lists this chapter as being revised in Revision 2 of the Change Record Section; however, it appears as if this is the first time the chapter has been posted to CBP's Web site.)
ACE ABI CATAIR Revision 2, Updated Chapters
With Revision 2 of the ACE ABI CATAIR, the following changes were made:
The Census Warning Override and Census Warning Query chapters were amended to include a table of contents and a Table of Changes section.
The Entry Summary Create/Update was amended to include various wording and text revisions, additional filing clarifications, and revisions to the 47-record to support reporting of the Ultimate Consignee at the Entry Summary line level.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 05/12/08 news, 08051260 1, for BP summary of Revision 1 of the ACE ABI CATAIR.
See ITT's Online Archives or 04/01/08 news, 08040105, for most recent previous BP summary of CBP adding sections to the ACE ABI CATAIR document.)
Change Record, ACE ABI CATAIR document available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/automated/modernization/abi_catair/
BP Note
The ACE ABI CATAIR document now includes the following chapters, sections, and appendices: Table of Contents, Introduction and Getting Started, ACS to ACE Transition Topics, Census Warning Override, Census Warning Query, Entry Summary Create/Update, Entry Summary Status Notification, Entry Summary Query, Importer/Bond Query, Importer/Consignee Create/Update, Appendix H (Census Warning Messages and Override Codes), and Appendix Q (Record Layout Key).