Question: One of our US divisions is shipping an item from the U.S. to Pakistan. The buyer is our China division and the final sale is taking place in Pakistan. Our China division has asked if the ocean bill of lading can show them as the shipper and they will provide the invoice and packing […]
Question: During an internal audit, I came to a shipment with discrepancies between the AES and the BOL. The AES named Port of Export Port Everglades and BOL named Port of Houston. After speaking with our freight forwarder in an attempt to resolve, it was explained that the consolidator used, shipped the container from the […]
Question: Anyone know how to find current guidance from CBP on AES penalties (aggravating & mitigating factors)? Sometime in the last year they seemed to pull it off their site. Old link: The penalty mitigation guidelines mentioned in this bulletin (CBP Bulletin, Vol. 43, No. 2, dated January 2, 2009) . can be accessed at […]
Question: 5 different BULK grain railcars (each having unique railcar numbers), ship same day, from the same U.S. location/USPPI, via the same rail carrier (separate BOLs for each shipment provided to the rail carrier), all in the same rail train (typically other company bulk railcars are also in the train), going to the same ultimate […]
Question: Does the 15 CFR 30.60 Confidentiality of Electronic Export Information preclude an employee of our foreign subsidiary, a non US citizen located outside of the US, from viewing the AES filing information for export orders? Could the foreign employee monitor the performance of our export broker. ************* ANSWERS: 15 CFR 30.60 prohibits the release […]
Question: Currently we are having our freight forwarders file our AES. We have several freight forwarders to manage. Currently we audit 100% of our AES filings. The error rate is quite high around 20%. I would say on average we do about 10 shipments a week, with anywhere from 10-100 items and 1-12 different HS […]
Question: My question concerns the license value to be used in AES. I have asked a number of colleagues and I get different opinions. Let’s assume we have an export license for Product X: When we applied for the license, the unit value we used was $2,000. Six months later we have a sale at […]
Question: My question concerns the license value to be used in AES. I have asked a number of colleagues and I get different opinions. Let’s assume we have an export license for Product X: When we applied for the license, the unit value we used was $2,000. Six months later we have a sale at […]
Question: I have an inquiry regarding value reporting in AES. If a US manufacturer(USPPI) sales to a foreign entity in country X(FPPI), and the goods are consigned to a third unrelated party in country Y (Ultimate consignee), what value is to be reported on for AES purpose? The manufacturer(USPPI) selling price or the FPPI selling […]
Question: According to FTR 30.9 “The USPPI or the authorized filing agent is responsible for electronically transmitting accurate EEI as known at the time of filing in the AES and transmitting any changes to that information as soon as they are known. Corrections, cancellations, or amendments to that information shall be electronically identified and transmitted […]
Question: According to FTR 30.9 “The USPPI or the authorized filing agent is responsible for electronically transmitting accurate EEI as known at the time of filing in the AES and transmitting any changes to that information as soon as they are known. Corrections, cancellations, or amendments to that information shall be electronically identified and transmitted […]
Question: A forwarder consolidates multiple orders and moves into Mexico for us. Recently an audit revealed they were not consolidating the EEI filing, but were instead filing based on sales order not by consolidated shipment. When requested to change to one EEI per day, we were told sometimes the shipment is on two trucks, and […]
