• 12-000407
• Oct 09, 2012

• To : Automated Broker Interface, Ocean Manifest, Rail Manifest, Truck Manifest

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.