AES

Question:   Can anyone think of a reason to obtain AES info, when we are now receiving the Monthly AES Compliance report and consistently receive 100% compliance?

Question:   Is there a way of correcting data on AES filing once it’s submitted? For an example, we ran into a scenerio where the shipper didn’t put down correct Country of origin and license exception was wrong. how do i fix it? what’s the timeframe if there is any?

Question:   Would like the group’s insight into how you handle non tangible “right-to- use” line items (value over $ 2,500.00) on their customs invoice and how you handle AES filling. Would also like to know if any of you are seeing country specific requirements.(?)  

Question: We have been experiencing very delayed response times from the AES system especially on Fridays.  Is anyone else having this issue.   Last week it took more than an hour and a half  to get an ITN number.     We try to file our EEIs so that we have the ITN number to provide to the […]

Question: We have a Mexican distributor, we have agreed to supply inventory on aconsignment basis, we do not bill them until they provide us with anorder for the sole purpose of billing. Our customer’s warehouse is in Pharr,Texas, with invoices showing a billing address of Mexico. The inventory soldto them is for orders they are […]

Question: In reviewing our AES submissions, we’ve found that we may not beaccurately reporting to Census HTSUS, value and other data elementsunrelated to export licensing on our submissions for export shipments.We will fix the problem moving forward and document the changes.However, we wonder whether we should also (1) submit a blanketdisclosure of the systemic issue; […]

Question: I am curious what the membership typically uses as their resource whenreporting the (EEI) ‘Port of Export’ via AES:  The Booking Confirmation, BL,Online Tracking Information, or Other?  How about for auditing purposes?

Question: I am wondering if any of the membership has any experience with AES penalties under the new mitigation guidelines.   1) Has anyone received a penalty? If so, what was the violation?   2) Is anyone aware of a penalty for AES data that might be subject to interpretation such as value, intermediate consignee or ultimate […]

Question: We’ve just done an audit of our 2008 export data from Dept of Census andinitial analysis of data appears there were over 100 duplications of exportshipments made under our tax number.  Our freight forwarder handled theexport clearances correctly, but it appears our customer’s freightforwarders, also did export clearance under our tax number with no […]

Question:Our customer in Russia is insisting we supply them with a copy of our AES filing.  They advised customs in Russia needs to compare what we filed with AES to what is declared on the documents they present to customs and maintain they cannot clear the goods in Russia without it.   Isn’t it illegal to […]

Question:If you are importing a US manufactured good for repair purposes and claim on the CBP-7501 a 9801 HTSUS number for US Goods Returned, must you match up and claim 9801.10.0000 on the AES return of the repaired goods?   Or can you claim the true HTSUS number that you would normally claim on a new […]

Question:   My system can only hold one classification number – as such it was decided this number would be the US HTS code.  For exports, I provided a key to assist export customer service in translating the HTS code into the Schedule B code.  Then I was told by my corporate trade compliance person […]