ABI Air In-Bond Deployment Delayed Due to M1, Simplified Entry

April 16, 2012 by Tim Warren|Customs and Ports

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said April 13, 2012, it would delay deploying ABI Air In-Bond (QX/WX). CBP said the delay is due to the deployment of the CBP priority Sea and Rail Manifest (M1) and imminent deployment of the Simplified Entry (SE) project which is the basis of Entry/Cargo Release. CBP anticipates that a very loose timeline for delivery QX/WX is July 2012. CBP will send out a CSMS Message with refinements to this timeline as other functionality deployments are completed.

(The use of ABI Air In-Bond will be voluntary; it will allow for in-bond creation, deletion, arrival and export for import airway bills. CBP had announced an August 8, 2011, deployment for ABI Air In-Bond, but it was then disabled due to problems. This functionality had earlier been deployed for production in early 2009, but that deployment was halted due to output message problems. See ITT's Online Archives 11081112 for a summary.)