The bill that missed your SAM — put it on with an SAA, from their CSN

In this film

• Open the SAM customs accepted. Three bills on the call — the forwarder's is not one of them.
• Build the line from their CSN, not by typing it. Drop the CSN they filed and the ACK file customs sent them, together; both are read in your browser.
• The line comes back built: the bill, its date, the packages and the containers all off their CSN, and it quotes the CSN by the number and date customs granted it — so the fields the two are compared on agree from the start.
• A CSN does not carry everything a SAM line needs: what it could not fill, it lists for you rather than guessing.
• Build amendment writes the SAA: three bills up to four, and the three already accepted stay out of the file and are not re-sent. The containers go onto the ship's list with the bill.
• And it tells you who has to approve it before you sign: before entry inward the amendment is yours to file; after it, an officer approves it before customs' record changes (ICES Advisory 37/2026).

Chapters

1. 0:00The bill that missed your SAM
2. 0:14Open the SAM customs accepted
3. 0:32Their CSN is accepted; your SAM has not got the bill
4. 0:46Add a line from their CSN
5. 1:00What the CSN cannot fill
6. 1:18Build the SAA: only this line is sent
7. 1:30Who approves it, and signing (not pressed here)

Read it instead

The SCMTR reference pages this film walks through — free to read, no sign-in.

• Amending a shipping line filing (SAA or SDA)What a minimal SAA or SDA carries — only the lines that changed, never the whole manifest again — what amdType means, and when to use each.
• House bills missing from the line’s manifestGetting a consolidation’s house bills onto the shipping line’s arrival manifest: why the line refuses, and the two ways out customs allows.