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 […]
Question: When a foreign buyer purchases from a US seller and will arrange for a US freight forwarder to ship the product, the USPPI should always obtain the POA that gives the forwarder permission to act on the FPPI’s behalf correct? If that POA does not include the granting of permission to file […]
QUESTION: We received our requested 2012 AES filing records from Census, which have been separated into 3 spreadsheet tabs: AF Routed Non-routed USPPI routed – US Principal Party in Interest The column headings and content within each tab are different. What is the difference between AF Routed and USPPI routed? The […]
Question: A defective part, no longer under warranty, is imported into the US for analysis and/or repair, if possible. At importation, 9801.00.10.12 for repairs and returns is not used because it is unknown whether or not the part will be repaired. It is determined to be repairable, it is repaired, and the […]
Question: How do other members handle AES/EEI record confidentiality? Our process has been to request the export bill of lading and/or air waybill upon export from the freight forwarder. In this same inquiry, we request a copy of the AES record. Then, we audit both documents to our export documents for a match. […]
Question: On a routed transaction, since the USPPI does not want to complete an SLI – nor should they, who’s EIN gets reported on the AES filing when the FPPI does not have an EIN? ************
Question: Can anyone in the membership provide a slide or PowerPoint presentation explaining the new AES regulations that go into effect in January? =============
Question: Is it legal and acceptable practice under US Foreign Trade Statistics Regulations for the USPPI to request its authorized US freight forwarder to file an EEI in AES on behalf of the FPPI in Latin America? The US freight forwarder is transporting the cargo from the USPPI’s warehouse in California to its warehouse […]
