The Census Bureau will soon update AESDirect, the filing tool used to submit electronic export information in the Automated Export System, to allow all AESDirect users to see the partner government agency requirements that have been integrated in AESDirect, the agency said in a May 15 email to industry. Currently, some PGA requirements “were based on Pilot participation and were only available to those participants,” Census said. AESDirect will be updated May 20.
The Census Bureau this week updated two license type codes in the Automated Export System to reflect which Export Control Classification Numbers can be used with those codes, which need to be reported for certain chip-related exports.
The Census Bureau this week added and removed Harmonized Tariff Schedule/Schedule B Classifications that require reporting in the Automated Export System for shipments of used vehicles. The agency added HTS/Schedule B number 8432.80.0010, which includes certain agricultural equipment listed as "tow behind spreaders, aerators, and de-thatchers," and it removed 8708.30.0050, which includes certain "other vehicles."
CBP is again extending a deadline to allow users more time to continue submitting certain documents through the Document Imaging System in preparation for the agency’s upcoming Electronic Export Manifest mandate (see 2207290035 and 2209150014), the agency said in a cargo systems message this week.
CBP on March 31 will officially retire the trade export data universe in ACE reports and replace it with an “enhancement” to the Automated Export System universe, the agency said. Before the retirement, filers of ACE Reports “must repoint any saved Trade Export reports to the” AES universe. They can do this through a two-step process:
The Census Bureau emailed tips on how to address the most frequent messages generated this month in the Automated Export System.
CBP has updated a license code in the Automated Export System for shipments involving export licenses by partner government agencies that aren’t incorporated in AES, it said in a March 13 CSMS message. Exporters should use License Code OPA (Other Partnership Agency) to give CBP a “heads-up that some paper documentation is required by another Federal agency not accommodated in AES,” according to the agency, such as the Drug Enforcement Agency or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Licenses from the Bureau of Industry and Security, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, the State Department, the Energy Department and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission “cannot be used with license type” OPA, CBP said in the CSMS message.
The Census Bureau is upgrading the severity of an Automated Export System alert that notifies export filers who don’t comply with a 2020 change that expanded the Foreign Trade Zone Identifier from seven to nine characters. The alert, Response Message 15A, is being upgraded from “Informational” to “Compliance Alert,” Census said in an email to industry this week. The upgrade will last for at least 120 days, the agency said, and will be upgraded to a severity of “Fatal” at a later date.
The Census Bureau emailed tips on how to address the most frequent messages generated this month in the Automated Export System.
The Census Bureau is revising error message 26C in the Automated Export System, which alerts users when the U.S. Principal Party in Interest Address State Code and the U.S. State of Origin Code don’t match, the agency said in a Feb. 20 email to industry.