Question: As far as I can tell I’m currently receiving all of the noreply@aesdirect.census.gov emails from AES Direct for the location I’m at now.  I confirmed with this location’s AES filers that my email address is not listed in their AES Direct filings.  I don’t file AES but do review the AES filings in AES […]
Question: I am hoping that the membership can advise on the following scenario. There are 3 companies: US Company 1 (US1) · Chinese Company related to US Company 1 · US Company 2 (US2) – raw material provider US1 will be issuing a purchase order for raw materials to be delivered to the Chinese company. […]
Question: How is everyone handling routed shipments? We are struggling to get the AES information back from our customers forwarders on a timely basis We are spending several hours a day asking for this information and trying to keep track of who has sent it back to us and who has not. Interested in everyone […]
Question: Several years ago Central American governments and SGS or Intertek were requesting copies of the exporter declarations that are given to Census. I know that this isn’t allowed and with the age of AESDirect, I thought it went away. But now I am at a different company. We are being asked to provide the […]
Question: Does anyone in the membership have any experience with correcting a large number of AESDirect filings? Our company has discovered that we have been reporting the wrong port of export for all of our filings for the past 5 years. We will do a VD but would like to know how others have corrected […]
Question: I have been tasked to complete an internal AES Filing Audit for my company and was looking for some guidance as the majority of my experience has been on the import side of things. Now, I have already requested our AES Data from the US Census Bureau, but was wondering if anyone had any […]
Question: One of our US divisions is shipping an item from the U.S. to Pakistan. The buyer is our China division and the final sale is taking place in Pakistan. Our China division has asked if the ocean bill of lading can show them as the shipper and they will provide the invoice and packing […]
Question: One of our US divisions is shipping an item from the U.S. to Pakistan. The buyer is our China division and the final sale is taking place in Pakistan. Our China division has asked if the ocean bill of lading can show them as the shipper and they will provide the invoice and packing […]
Question: One of our US divisions is shipping an item from the U.S. to Pakistan. The buyer is our China division and the final sale is taking place in Pakistan. Our China division has asked if the ocean bill of lading can show them as the shipper and they will provide the invoice and packing […]
Question: During an internal audit, I came to a shipment with discrepancies between the AES and the BOL. The AES named Port of Export Port Everglades and BOL named Port of Houston. After speaking with our freight forwarder in an attempt to resolve, it was explained that the consolidator used, shipped the container from the […]
Question: Anyone know how to find current guidance from CBP on AES penalties (aggravating & mitigating factors)? Sometime in the last year they seemed to pull it off their site. Old link: The penalty mitigation guidelines mentioned in this bulletin (CBP Bulletin, Vol. 43, No. 2, dated January 2, 2009) . can be accessed at […]
Question: 5 different BULK grain railcars (each having unique railcar numbers), ship same day, from the same U.S. location/USPPI, via the same rail carrier (separate BOLs for each shipment provided to the rail carrier), all in the same rail train (typically other company bulk railcars are also in the train), going to the same ultimate […]
