Canada filing ACI Seafreight - FROB or in transit goods

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Last updated: Aug 14, 2024
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Preconditions in the basic data

The carrier/NVOCC/forwarder who filed the data is responsible for sending the necessary S10 Supplementary data.

As with the ACI (eHBL), codes are required which must be provided and applied for by the CBSA.

  • The codes are deposited in the CargoSoft basic data.

Setting the master data is identical to ACI Seafreight, which you can find in ACI Seafreight setup.

Procedure in the TMS

Customs procedure

The Customs procedures FROB or In Transit to US will be selected from a dropdown menu in the ACI tab.

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For goods remaining on board the ocean vessel in Canada for onward carriage to the USA.

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For goods that are unloaded in Canada and then imported into the USA by the carrier per oncarriage (e.g. by rail).

  • The data is entered on the ACI tab in the same way as for the transmission of eHBL data for imported goods (Customs Procedure 24).

  • Transmitted from the ACI collection tab!

Deviations to the eHBL

Imported goods

Compared to eHBL shipments, FROB or in transit goods have the following differences for certain fields:

Previous CCN: is pre-assigned - but is not relevant for the transfer (necessary for eHBL).
ACI location code: has not to be filled in (necessary for eHBL).
ACI warehouse location code: has not to be filled in (necessary for eHBL).

Note: The customs procedure 23 Transit to US Merchant Haulage is sent via the eHBL interface.

Compared to eHBL transmissions, NO close messages need to be sent for FROB/inTransit goods.

 

All further explanations, e.g. on general rules, functions and field descriptions can be found in Canada filing - ACI Seafreight.

Instructions tab in B/L

For a FROB/LCL shipment in B2B-BL, it is mandatory to enter the container number so that the data record can be processed.

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Enter goods description

The following items must be ensured so that the data from the goods description can be transferred correctly:

1. If a container is stored as a packaging code in level 1, this is regarded as a container line.

2. If no container is stored in the package line below in level 2, this line is considered the shipment line and contains the number, packaging, contents and weight of the consignment.

3. The weight from the container line from level 1 is determined and transferred if the weight is missing in the package line of level 2.

Message flow in FROB/in transit shipments

Status codes

The following status codes, which are available from Canadian Customs for FROB/in-transit shipments, are implemented as status events.

These are sent to the shipper per email:

Accepted by CBSA (Application Acknowledgement) 

As soon as Canadian customs has checked and released the data record, the status code 1000 is sent as feedback and a green tick is placed on the ACI tab for CA ACI OK.

→ Pls also see Send, cancel and Responses ACI Seafreight.

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