CBP Seattle Updates Air AMS Procedures

CBP Seattle updated its Automated Manifest Systems (AMS) standardized procedures at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport for manifesting bag tag numbers, said a Trade Information Notice (TIN). CBP Seattle said there have been a number of questions over whether bag tag numbers were required in Air AMS.

(The Air AMS system is designated to contain all incoming cargo, which includes merchandise arriving on bag tags, either in-bond or post entered. The system is air waybill (AWB) driven and therefore requires an 11 digit number, which it interprets as an AWB for input. Bag tags can be input into the system by creating a number to simulate an AWB from the bag tag number.)

Effective immediately, Air AMS carriers will manifest all incoming cargo, including that which arrives as in-bond or post entered bag tags, by creating the 11 digit number required by the system for input, said the TIN. The carrier will use their three digit carrier code, followed by zeroes and ending with the bag tag number so that the total number of digits is 11.

(Email ITTNews@warren-news.com for a copy of the TIN.)