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 […]
Question: Upon receipt of EEI data, we are finding that most FPPI designated freight forwarders are not properly submitting data to Census. The repeated errors being: not being identified as Routed Transactions; not using the Schedule B provided; not using the reporting units provided; not using the value provided; incorrectly reporting Relationship; not […]
Question: In a Routed Transaction, the USPPI [beneficiary] is obligated to provide certain data elements that will allow the FPPI [foreign buyer] or their designated freight forwarder to correctly file an EEI via AES. In our case, those elements are provided on our invoices and a Routed Transaction Shippers Letter of Instruction. This information is […]
Question: Our company is filing some EEIs through AESDirect for shipments being facilitated by our customers’ forwarders. If the EEIs were filed by the forwarder, they would clearly need to be declared as routed exports. When we are doing the filing directly instead, should we check off “Y” for routed exports?
Question: If AES documentation is not filed on time the streamship lines fine you and add charges for rolling bookings etc. What recourse does an exporter have if the steamship line does not give you original bills of lading for 3-4 weeks because they are overloaded in documentation?
Question: We are getting ready to do the reconciliation for our FY08 entries and found out there were some entries, more than a handful, were not flagged that should have been flagged. Our broker suggested to do the voluntary tender for those entries that should have been flagged that owe more than $20 per entry. […]
Our facility in Puerto Rico is purchasing material from a vendor in the United States. The vendor is shipping the material to the customer’sforwarder in the port of Miami. Our question is on the export declaration. In this transaction, whose name should the export declaration be filed under and what value should be declared? Obviously […]
As a company we have multiple shipments each year to unrelateddistributors. These distributors control their own freight, and thus we believe that we have routed shipments to an FPPI. We are AES Self filers. In reading the regulations, I do not see a provision for an annual POA, or an annual written authorization. Can this […]
For those of you who are filing their own Export Declarations, I am curious if you are filing directly through AES Direct or if you have set up a server to input the information first before sending it up to AES Direct. We have several different facilities in different states and I would like to […]
