CSMS# 12-000407 - New Error Code for Invalid Characters

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10/09/2012 11:29 AM EDT

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Attention Ocean, Rail, Truck, and ABI Software Developers





Shortly CBP will be instituting a new error code for a condition found in manifest and ABI transmissions. The condition is the presence of characters in the data that are not valid for CBP usage. The error code and definition are:



370 INVALID CHARACTER



This error code will be added to the Appendix H of the of the CAMIR with the wording:



370 INVALID CHARACTER



ANSI X12 segment or CAMIR record contains invalid characters. Valid characters are defined as:



!"#$%&'()+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[]^_`{|}~



This error code will be added to the Appendix S of the of the CATAIR with the wording:



370 INVALID CHARACTER



CATAIR record contains invalid characters. Valid characters are defined as:



!"#$%&'()+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[]^_`{|}~



If any character other than the ones indicated above appear in a transmission, a reject will occur.



We will inform the trade as implementation approaches. Trade users are encouraged to prepare to receive this error code and message.






Related CSMS No. 12-000403