CBP Notice on Temporary ABI Paperless Release & AMS Bill "Disconnect"
U.S. Customs and Border Protection states that it is aware of a temporary disconnect between an ABI entry’s paperless release and its associated AMS bill that occurred 00:00 to 01:00 EST on the mornings of January 19th, 25th, 26th, and 27th. In the first hour on those days, entries which received a Paperless Release selectivity result transmission (RR) did not trigger a release posting in AMS (e.g., a ‘1C’ posting). CBP has manually posted the 1C release for the shipments. The carrier and terminal operators will see the 1C posted from the HQ port code (9900).
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If an entry went through selectivity in the timeframes listed above and the carrier is still not seeing the release, CBP is requesting that the brokerage community check the release status of the associated bills by querying the bill status via the ABI Query Current Entry Status transmission (IN). If the release on the bill is not seen, the ABI filer's assigned client representative should be contacted.
CBP also warns that a Bill of Lading Update transmission should not be done in an attempt to correct the situation, as it will not help.
For further information about this process, ABI filers should contact their client representative.
CSMS #12-000033 (dated 02/02/12)