Question: According to the ITAR, exports of defense articles must be entered in AES even when going out under a license exemption. Apparently this applies even for hand-carried items. What about CCL items that are hand carried? Not as TMP, and not as BAG, but as NLR permanent exports? What are the AES reporting requirements […]
Question: Below are 2 definitions of Transportation Reservation Number as defined by (1) AESDirect User Guide and (2) AES section of the Census web site. This is the reservation number, or booking number, assigned by the ocean carrier to hold space on the vessel for the cargo Number referencing a transportation booking, bill of lading, […]
Question: Recently we have received from the U.S. Census Bureau our Foreign Trade AES Data for the previous 12 months. Would anyone be willing to share a template or process of how they review and audit these finding? ************* ANSWER: We audit every item filed with the AES that could possibly have been filed incorrectly; […]
Question: Are there any tools that I can use to monitor AES export (routed or other) filings, say on a weekly basis? I hope that Census has something that allows me an opportunity to review/fix errors, similar to ACE once I discover them via periodic audit (against my EIN). *********** Answers: If you are a […]
Parts (full truck load of multiple parts, all have same Sch. B.) are built in Florida. Customer sends their FF to the Florida shipper’s dock. Customer pays for freight. FF will also be handling ocean as well from Long Beach to Asia. I want to avoid a routed transaction. This transaction is considered […]
Just curious how others are interpreting the new AES filing requirement that will go into effect in April for shipments which require an export license to provide in the EEI filing, the “value designated on the export license that corresponds to the commodity being exported” [15 CFR 30.6 (b) (15)]. What we are […]
If anyone in the membership has a step by step work instruction to use when filing AES (and exemptions) would you be willing to share? All you need can be found here, including detailed user guides, sample shipments and explanations: http://aesdirect.census.gov/ Albert Saphir ABS CONSULTING Supply Chain Harmony – […]
QUESTION: Does anyone in the membership have an AES operational manual that they can share? As the USPPI, my company wants to provide some procedural guidelines and compliance best practices to our third party AES filing agent. **************
QUESTION: My understanding is if I am the USPPI and self file through AES, I am not required to enter the freight forwarders name in the freight forwarding field of the AES. However if I give permission to a freight forwarder or authorize an agent to file on […]
Question: Having joined a new company, I have come to learn that one of our distribution centers performs AES submission on behalf of the USPPI. The distribution center provides the service of holding goods for storage. The goods are dispatched under the instructions of the USPPI. The distribution center does maintain Power of […]
Question: I have begun to notice that our forwarder has been filing some of our AES transaction for Routed Exports as “Yes”. When I approach them on why they were filing the routed export as “yes”, they indicated that because the shipments were collect to the customer that means the consignee is routed. […]
Question: We sell to a customer in Hong Kong. Our Hong Kong customer sells to their customer in Taiwan. The shipment is moving via courier. The value of the sale to Hong Kong is less than $2500. The value of the order between Hong Kong and Taiwan exceeds $2500. From the way I […]
