Your SAM was rejected and the ACK names nothing — what to do
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The hardest ACK to deal with: the verdict is Rejected, three blocks are ticked 00 Successful, the declaration block's list is empty, and there is not one error code anywhere to look up.
In this film
- Drop the manifest you sent and the reply customs returned, together.
- The reply read as a whole rather than line by line — customs' own list stays below it, unchanged.
- Why there is nothing to look up, and why that is a fact about the reply and not about your file.
- The one thing such a reply does tell you: which block customs left unstamped. The app is explicit that placing the fault there is a reading, not customs' word.
- What to do: quote the tracking id, ask the helpdesk, and refile under a fresh job number.
- Then fix it where the file is: the editor runs every check over the file you sent.
Chapters
- 0:00Rejected, and nothing named
- 0:19The whole ACK: no block carries an error code
- 0:33What it does tell you — and what is our reading
- 0:46Ask, then refile under a fresh job number
- 1:00Then fix it in the editor
Read it instead
The SCMTR reference pages this film walks through — free to read, no sign-in.
- Customs rejected my SAM — which bills, and why?A SAM rejection names most lines by number only. Explain this rejection resolves every refused line to its bill and says what to change.
- Reading an acknowledgement from customsYou filed and a JSON file came back. Which of the three files you have, what the verdict means, and why some refusals carry no code at all.
From SCMTR.io
SCMTR filing, checked before ICEGATE sees it
CSN, SAM / SDM and export SCX for forwarders, consol agents and shipping lines — every check before you sign.
- Check your SCMTR JSONFree, no sign-in — what customs would reject, and the fix.
- Track a B/LFree, no login — the SAM status straight from ICEGATE.
More films
- Check an ICEGATE CSN file before customs refuses it
- ICEGATE refused your file by e-mail? Forward it to find out why
- Customs rejected your export — read the ACK file and fix it
- Shipping line: before you upload the SAM, check every line that mentions a CSN
- CSN rejected by ICEGATE? Read the ACK, fix the value, file again (error 118)
- Check your SAM before you send it — every problem with its ICEGATE code