CBP Posts List of Companies/Persons Offering Air AMS Communication and Data Processing Services, Etc
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP's) Office of Automated Commercial Systems (ACS) has posted a notice to its Web site containing (a) a list, as of March 4, 2004, of companies/persons offering Air Automated Manifest System (AMS) communication and data processing services to the trade community, and (b) the Air AMS Respondent Checklist, as follows:
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Companies/persons offering Air AMS communication/data processing services.
CBP has listed the (1) Communication Network Providers who have the communication capability to transmit and receive AMS data; (2) software vendors who have developed software packages for handling Air AMS data, some of which include a communication interface. (These organizations presently have the capability to transmit and receive AMS data); and (3) service centers which presently have the capability to provide carriers with an interface with ACS.
CBP notes that each Air AMS participant, regardless of the computer hardware and/or software used, must successfully complete a period of intensive testing with CBP/AMS.
According to CBP, this list will be updated periodically and does not constitute any form of an endorsement by CBP.
Air AMS respondent checklist. CBP also includes an Air AMS Respondent Checklist which CBP states should be completed by all new AMS participants.
See ITT's Online Archives or 03/04/04 news, 04030405, for BP summary of CBP's revised compliance dates for mandatory advance electronic cargo information for inbound air cargo by region. See ITT's Online Archives or 03/16/04 and 03/19/04 news, 04031605 and 04031930 1, for BP summaries on CBP's seminars on the advance electronic cargo information requirements for inbound air cargo.
CBP's OIT-ISD-Middleware Team (703) 921-6312 (questions related to currently supported communications options)
CBP notice (dated 03/04/04) available at