GMS ITEC System CHB - Harmonized System Updates
Harmonized System Updates In-Brief This chapter describes how to download updates to the Harmonized Tariff database.
Menu Location CHB
CHB/ABI Menu ABI Processing Menu
File Extracts
Procedure When the CHB/ABI module was installed onto your system so was a complete up to date Harmonized Tariff database. During the year, US Customs will need to update the database for various reasons. These updates are available via ABI and you are informed when they are available via an Administrative Message.
The Administration Messages will begin with “HSU-YYNN” where YY is the current year, and NN is the update number, i.e. HSU-9807 means update number 8 for year 1998.
From the above menu location, select [Harmonized System Update (HSU)].
♦ Select [File | Add].
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♦ Enter the Update Number. This is the YYNN part of the HSU number.
♦ If you would like to limit the download to a specific range, enter the Starting Tariff # and Ending Tariff # in the range. This is not recommended as there may be tariff numbers missing.
♦ Enter the applicable Priority code. See ABI Priorities chapter for more details.
Use the normal ABI Send/Receive programs to send and subsequently update this download. Doing so will in turn update your HTS database automatically.
Notes 1) HSU Update MUST BE DONE in order. If an update is skipped and later
downloaded and updated, you MUST re-download and update all of the HSU updates after that HSU.
2) To view which HSU are installed on your system, go to [CHB | CHB/ABI Menu | Reference Files Menu | Harmonized Tariff Menu (hts)] and select HTS Log File. This will list all of the HTS functions done and the order they were done in.