CAMIR EDI - 601 US Customs Export Shipment Information
February 22, 2012
By
Ray Atia
What is a 601 US Customs Export Shipment Information
The 601 EDI document contains information on the US Customs Export Shipment Information Transaction Set (601) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. Supported EDI formats include ANSI, X12, HIPPA, VICS, USC, TRADACOMMS, XCBL and EDIFACT and its subsets.
What constructs and holds the 601 U.S. Customs Export Shipment Information document together?
The U.S. Customs Export Shipment Information document uses a system of segments and data elements. At the least, a segment can hold one data element, and one data element can hold a data field. Data elements range from vendor number to price per item, quantity and address information.
In what manner is this document used
In a nutshell, the main purpose this document serves is for transmitting export shipment information to
U.S. Customs EDI services. This document is useful to exporters or their agents, service providers and carriers.
The process and standards
Whether the EDI document is received into a readable format for manual entry or into a financial system, it cannot be processed without an EDI solution. For this reason, trading partners use and rely on an EDI implementation guide to manage their operations. Typically, implementation guides are organized to outline the specific values accepted, segments, data elements and the applicable business rules that must be followed.
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