The Commerce Department is still waiting to issue its long-awaited proposed rule on routed exports despite making progress on the effort in recent months, said Omari Wooden, assistant division chief for trade outreach and regulations at the Census Bureau.
U.S. racing teams shipping cars to Mexico for a stock car race later this month don’t have to comply with certain regulations governing exports of used self-propelled vehicles, CBP said in a recent ruling.
The Bureau of Industry and Security will decommission the legacy self-management software for SNAP-R, the agency’s export application submission system, on June 30, BIS said in a notice on the homepage of its website. The agency is asking users to "please migrate your account(s) to the updated SNAP-R application before then to ensure continued access to the SNAP-R system. Each individual is required to migrate their account." BIS also published step-by-step migration instructions and said questions should be directed to SNAPR@bis.doc.gov.
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.