Additional Declarations

To update or add an additional declaration, complete the following steps:

Search for an existing commodity summary to update. On the Commodity Summary page, enter the Commodity and select a Part from the drop-down list, then click the Search button.
RESULT: The commodity summary that meets the search criteria will appear below the search text.
NOTE: Commodities listed in red italics are incomplete Commodity Summaries (missing required elements) and are unavailable for users to view.

To edit a Commodity Summary, click its corresponding Edit button.
RESULT: The Add/Update Commodity Summary page appears.
NOTE: You can edit individual ADs without having to click the Edit button, delete it, and add the new AD and regroup. You can click the Change AD Text button. If the AD is a standard AD template, it will not affect the template and will only apply to this commodity summary. It will also break the tie to the standard AD template and any updates to the standard AD template will no longer cascade to this commodity summary. The Change AD Text button is only available for individual ADs and not for AD Groups used in a commodity summary.

You can either click the Next button or select the Additional Declarations link from the menu at the left side of the screen.
NOTE: If using the Next button you may need to continue clicking until the desired page appears.
RESULT: The Additional Declarations page appears and displays the current additional declarations which apply to the selected commodity summary.

4.	To edit these additional declaration, click the Edit button. RESULT: The Additional Declarations Builder - Step 1: Add Additional Declarations page appears.

To add a standard Additional Declaration (AD) from the list, select the corresponding checkbox(es) and click the Add Selected Standard AD(s) button. You can also customize an existing standard Additional Declaration by clicking its corresponding Edit button, which will populate text.
RESULT: The AD displays under the Selected Additional Declaration section.

Click the Harmful Organisms Selection Tool button to insert scientific harmful organism names from the country's list of known harmful organisms. Using the tool also maintains the association with the harmful organism reference data so updates to the reference data will be reflected in the Additional Declaration.
RESULT: A new page opens and you can select one or more harmful organism types and click the Add button to automatically populate the additional declarations with the selected organisms.

7.	To save the custom AD as a standard AD for this country, select the Add to Master List checkbox.

8.	To add a custom Additional Declaration, enter text in the text area, then click the Add Custom Additional Declaration button.

The Group Templates available to add to this summary are listed. Templates can only be added and cannot be edited at the Commodity Summary level. A Group Template can be edited on the Additional Declarations Group Template page at the Country-Specific Data level.To add an AD Group Template, select a template from the drop-down and click the Add button.

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The Selected Additional Declarations table lists the Additional Declarations that you entered. You can delete any that you do not need, or proceed to order and group these ADs by clicking the Next button.
RESULT: The Additional Declarations Builder page appears with STEP 2: Group Additional Declarations.

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All current ADs for the commodity summary are listed. You can use the up and down arrows to reorder the ADs and the right and left arrows to indent ADs that you wish to group.
NOTE: AD group levels are incremented one level at a time. AD can be indented up to five levels to allow for complex nesting of ADs. AD text color changes as ADs are indented or un-indented to make the grouping more visible during editing. These colors will not be displayed to end users. You can click the link to see an example of an AD with different group levels.

12.	Use the And/Or drop-down to specify which ADs are required within a group and as well as which AD groups are required.

13.	You can preview the AD by clicking the Preview Layout button.

14.	Click the Save button.