AES

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 […]

Question: Does the 15 CFR 30.60 Confidentiality of Electronic Export Information preclude an employee of our foreign subsidiary, a non US citizen located outside of the US, from viewing the AES filing information for export orders? Could the foreign employee monitor the performance of our export broker. ************* ANSWERS: 15 CFR 30.60 prohibits the release […]

Question: Currently we are having our freight forwarders file our AES. We have several freight forwarders to manage. Currently we audit 100% of our AES filings. The error rate is quite high around 20%. I would say on average we do about 10 shipments a week, with anywhere from 10-100 items and 1-12 different HS […]