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Export Main Manifest Response (EMMR) Business Rules

​ Message Mapping

Customs Data Dictionary

  1. EMMR messages will only be sent as a response to a EMM message that has been validated by the CCF.
  2. The Department will always report the EMM Senders Reference and Version Number in the EMMR message.
  3. EMMR 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 EMMR.
    2. Messages containing 50 or more errors will be rejected.
    3. The Department will generate an MMN (Main Manifest Number) if the create request is error free.
    4. The Department may generate an errored MMN, depending on the line level information required.
    5. The Department may reject an EMM message dependant on the error/s encountered.
    6. The MMN (where generated) will be provided in the EMMR message.
    7. For responses to change messages, the MMN will be reiterated in the EMMR message.
  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 L9999 referring to the line number reported to the Department.
  5. EMMR 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, EMMR messages will be re-transmitted. Retransmission's will be issued with a new message date/time stamp in the UNB segment.
  8. Status information returned in an EMMR message will include status type and status description at the message level.
  9. The Department may send additional EMMR messages to report a change in status.
  10. An EMMR will be in response to the reporting of up to 9999 lines of cargo, which were reported to the Department in a single EMM message.
  11. Each line of an EMMR will detail errors relating to a single line.
    1. The Department will use line numbers as reported by the user.
  12. EMMR will report the total number of lines as shown by the Department against the reported EMM.

V1.0 05 DEC 2002