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ESMR Business Rules

​ Message Mapping

Customs Data Dictionary

  1. ESMR messages will only be sent as a response to a ESM message that has been validated by the CCF.
  2. The Department will always report the ESM Senders Reference and Version Number in the ESMR message.
  3. ESMR 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 ESMR.
    2. Messages containing 50 or more errors will be rejected.
    3. The Department will generate a CRN (Consolidation Reference Number) if the create request is error free.
    4. The Department may generate an errored CRN, depending on the line level information required.
    5. The Department may reject an ESM message dependant on the error/s encountered.
    6. The CRN (where generated) will be provided in the ESMR message.
    7. For responses to change messages, the CRN will be reiterated in the ESMR 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. ESMR 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, ESMR 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 an ESMR message will include status type and status description at the message level.
  9. The Department may send additional ESMR messages to report a change in status.
  10. An ESMR will be in response to the reporting of up to 9999 lines of cargo, which were reported to the Department in a single ESM message.
  11. Each line of an ESMR will detail errors relating to a single line.
    1. The Department will use line numbers as reported by the user.
  12. ESMR will report the total number of lines as shown by the Department against the reported ESM.

V1.0 05 DEC 2002