The Drug Enforcement Administration is temporarily adding two synthetic benzimidazole-opioid substances -- N-pyrrolidino metonitazene and N -pyrrolidino protonitazene -- to Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, it said in a notice. The listing takes effect Aug. 15, and will be in effect for up to three years.
The Census Bureau is updating certain field names in the Automated Export System related to the U.S. Principal Party in Interest address and state of origin, it said in an Aug. 15 email to industry. The agency is changing the name of the “Address of the USPPI” to “Address of Origin” to clarify that the USPPI address “represents the origin of movement, not the address associated with the USPPI [Employer ID Number] or headquarters address,” it said. The change was previewed in a final rule issued by the agency on Aug. 13 (see 2508130022).
The Census Bureau emailed tips on how to address the most frequent message generated this month in the Automated Export System.
The Automed Export System’s Response Message 15A, which alerts filers if the reported Foreign Trade Zone Indicator isn’t formatted correctly, is being upgraded from a “compliance” message to a fatal error beginning July 14, CBP said in a cargo systems message last week. The error message won't allow export filers to move forward if the FTZ Indicator “does not have the required format of 3 numeric characters which is a valid zone followed by 6 alphanumeric characters.”
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau has been removed from the Automated Export System's Trade Interface Requirements for export filings, according to a June 25 CBP cargo systems message. The bureau has "inactivated its Partner Government Agency (PGA) Export Message Set" as part of a "deregulatory action," CBP said. "References for TTB have been removed from Appendices Q and X of the Automated Export System Trade Interface Requirement (AESTIR). Previously, the submission of TTB PGA export message set had been voluntary."
The Census Bureau emailed a tip on how to address the most frequent message generated this month in the Automated Export System. Response code 504 is a fatal error for when the reported license code isn't valid in AES. The license code or license exemption code must be reported for each Electronic Export Information filing, Census said, and valid codes can be found in Appendix F of the License and License Exemption Type Codes and Reporting Guidelines. Filers should verify the license code or license exemption code, correct the shipment and resubmit.
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.