CBP Says APHIS Manifest Hold Messages for ACS Cargo Release Entries Coming Soon

The Agriculture Department's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will soon be using manifest hold functionality in the Cargo Release Entry System to accommodate ACE eManifest: Sea and Rail, said CBP in a CSMS message.

"Please consider this message as notification that, in the near future, USDA-APHIS will begin using this functionality and as a result you may begin to receive the Disposition Codes in Appendix U of the [Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR)] in the R7 record of the ACS CATAIR Cargo Release Chapter," said CBP. "This chapter also includes the fields for disposition date, time, code, and narrative in the R7 record." The ACS CATAIR Cargo Release Chapter is (here) and the Cargo Manifest Status Query Chapters is (here).

CBP will send out additional CSMS messages when other agencies are brought on board, it said.