QUESTION ON USPPI / FPPI FILING EEI Question: Hello. I am looking for your input related to an ongoing issue and how the membership handles or maintains record of the following scenarios. 1. We are a manufacturer and have a Distributor in UAE requesting a shipment to California for one of their […]
Question: AES best practices guide states the following concerning 9801.10.0000: Reporting the Value of Repairs and Alterations. Shippers should report, under Schedule B number 9801.10.0000, the value of repairs and alterations made on articles previously imported for such purposes. These articles should be reported as domestic merchandise, and the value to be reported […]
Question: If the forwarding agent of the FPPI fails to file an AES as required, is the USPPI held responsible for the violation? ==========
Question: Hello, I have ongoing issues with our forwarder/broker in Laredo who handles related party, routed export transactions between our US company and our subsidiary in Mexico. This is a legacy broker and will be replaced. The issue is the intergrity of the data being filed in […]
Question: Are you adding inland freight and insurance to your AES filing values? If so, how are you determining the value in some cases? For instance, a shipment via Fed Ex to an international destination. How do you determine the inland freight value for the trip from your door to the port of export? […]
Question: For those who file AES in house, how do you know the export date? Is there a routing guide that you provide to the people doing the filing? *********
QUESTION: For those who file AES in house, how do you know the export date? Is there a routing guide that you provide to the people doing the filing? **************
QUESTION: I am currently auditing our shipping records for export compliance. Our shipping departments (3 different locations) file the company’s AES information via AESDirect. While auditing I’ve found that there are some errors on the carrier used (some of them are filed as “unknown” which I’m assuming is okay), and the departure dates do […]
Question: We are the USPPI and file with AES ourselves. We have a process to check Confirmed on Board and AWB’s to update the AES filing as necessary. It’s been a while since I had time to complete an export audit and yesterday received a $10,000 Penalty for a shipment sent May 12, 2013 […]
QUESTION: We have non inventory shipments that are exported from the US. At times, when they get to the imported country, they request the invoice be revised because the value is incorrect. Every time the value is too low. We send the revised invoice but then the new […]
Question: We’ve received, from Census, the data that lists the AES filings that were made as routed and non-routed and have completed the audit of our records against that report. As expected there were some shipments that were made as non-routed when they should have been routed. I intend to write with my […]
Question: I’m a freight forwarder and filing AES for a customer. My customer’s end customer in a foreign country assigned their own forwarding agent to handle the exports from US. I filed Routed Exports as “Yes”, but my customer asked me to change to “No”, as they think it’s not […]
