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EXDR Business Rules

Message Mapping

Customs Data Dictionary

  1. EXDR messages will only be sent as a response to a EXD message that has been validated by the CCF.
  2. The Department will always report the EXD Senders Reference and Version Number in the EXDR message.
  3. EXDR 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 EXDR.
    2. Messages containing 50 or more errors will be rejected.
    3. The Department will generate an EDN (Export Declaration Number) if the create request is error free.
    4. The Department may generate an errored EDN, depending on the line level information required.
    5. The Department may reject an EXD message dependant on the error/s encountered.
    6. The EDN (where generated) will be provided in the EXDR message.
    7. For responses to change messages, the EDN will be reiterated in the EXDR 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 L999 referring to the line number reported to the Department.
  5. EXDR 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, EXDR 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 EXDR message will include status type and status description at the message level.
  9. The Department may send additional EXDR messages to report a change in status.
  10. An EXDR will be in response to the reporting of up to 999 commodities, which were reported to the Department in a single EXD message.
  11. Each line of an EXDR will detail errors relating to a single line.
    1. The Department will use line numbers as reported by the user.
  12. EXDR will report the total number of lines as shown by the Department against the reported EXD.

V1.0 05 DEC 2002