CBP List of Companies/Persons Offering ABI Data Processing Services, Etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP's) Office of Information and Technology has posted a notice to its Web site containing a list, as of August 17, 2005, of companies/persons offering data processing services to the trade community for the Automated Broker Interface (ABI).
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CBP has listed the (1) software vendors (ABI Vendors); (2) drawback vendors (DV); (3) protest vendors (PV); (4) MQ/Frame enabled ABI software vendors (MQ-SV) and service centers (MQ-SC); and (5) Virtual Private Network software vendors (VPN SV) who have developed or who will provide upon request software packages for handling ABI data.
Also listed are service bureaus (SB) who act as a communications source for data transmissions to the Automated Commercial System (ACS) and port authorities (PA) currently developing or offering ABI transmissions with brokers. According to CBP, these organizations are in the business of transmitting and receiving Customs data for ABI participants.
CBP notes that each ABI participant, regardless of the computer hardware and/or software used, must successfully complete a period of intensive testing and qualification with CBP/ACS in order to be approved for various levels of ABI operations.
According to CBP, this list will be updated periodically and does not constitute any form of an endorsement by CBP. CBP also notes that the organizations shown may not offer all the services available to ABI participants. Specific operational status and capabilities should be obtained from the particular organization. The decision to utilize a specific data processing service is strictly an individual user decision.
CBP notice (dated 08/17/05) available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/operations_support/automated_systems/abi/getting_started/vendor.ctt/vendor.doc.