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CTORECR Business Rules

Message Mapping

Customs Data Dictionary

  1. CTORECR messages will only be sent as a response to a CTOREC message that has been validated by the CCF.
  2. The Department will always report the CTOREC Senders Reference and Version Number in the CTORECR message.
  3. CTORECR messages will indicate ICS acceptance, rejection or error conditions, at the line level for each line reported to the Department.
    1. Up to 50 errors will be reported in a single CTORECR.
    2. Messages containing 1 or more errors will be rejected.
    3. Line status won't be shown for accepted/valid lines unless the Notice is accepted.
    4. Error details will be shown for lines with edit check errors which results in the rejection of the notice. For CTO Rec messages a maximum of 50 errors will be compiled.
  4. Errors at the line level will include Error id; Error location and Error description.
    1. The Error location is the line number formatted as L0 = Header, L1 to L999 referring to the line number reported to the Department.
  5. CTORECR messages responding to a change message will return error information relating to the information that was changed.
  6. If messages relating to the same report are received out of sequence by the user (Message date/time stamp in the UNB segment), the message with the earlier date/time stamp should be rejected.
    1. If two messages have the same date/time stamp then the message arriving later should replace the earlier one.
  7. On rare occasions, CTORECR messages will be re-transmitted. Retransmissions will be issued with a new message date/time stamp in the UNB segment.
  8. Status information returned in a CTORECR message may constitute an authority to load cargo, it may also provide further movement status related information.
  9. A CTORECR will be in response to the movement of up to 999 lines of cargo from a CTO premise, which were reported to the Department in a single CTOREC message.
  10. The Department will identify line data by the line number reported to the Department in the originating CTOREC message.
  11. Each line of a CTORECR will detail one container, one break bulk shipment, or one air way-bill (ie Cargo Identifier), relating to a single CAN or Exempt line code.

V1.1 13 JUL 2004