Question:Would like to have an opinion from the community on this. We have asked our new freight forwarder to supply us with screen shots of what they are filing in AES on our behalf so we can confirm they are filing correctly. They have stated that ‘ Since the AES system belongs to the government […]
Question: We are about to formally request our historical AES data to review forpotential compliance issues. Has anyone written up a procedure/process forunderstanding and critically analyzing the data that we are about to receivethat they would be willing to share? Does anyone have any other watchoutsor recommendations for us since this is our first time […]
Question: Please confirm how you request AES data that is offered from Census free of charge. —————————————————————————– Answers: See enclosed. —————————————————————————– Write to Census. You’ll get only one year for free though. MARIAN E. LADNER | MANAGING PARTNER | BIO (713) 658-9220 (DIRECT) | (713) 752-2002 (FAX) (954) 439-4377 (MOBILE) mladner@LadnerTradeLaw.com
Question: Can anyone think of a reason to obtain AES info, when we are now receiving the Monthly AES Compliance report and consistently receive 100% compliance?
Question: Is there a way of correcting data on AES filing once it’s submitted? For an example, we ran into a scenerio where the shipper didn’t put down correct Country of origin and license exception was wrong. how do i fix it? what’s the timeframe if there is any?
Question: Would like the group’s insight into how you handle non tangible “right-to- use” line items (value over $ 2,500.00) on their customs invoice and how you handle AES filling. Would also like to know if any of you are seeing country specific requirements.(?)
Question: We have been experiencing very delayed response times from the AES system especially on Fridays. Is anyone else having this issue. Last week it took more than an hour and a half to get an ITN number. We try to file our EEIs so that we have the ITN number to provide to the […]
Question: We have a Mexican distributor, we have agreed to supply inventory on aconsignment basis, we do not bill them until they provide us with anorder for the sole purpose of billing. Our customer’s warehouse is in Pharr,Texas, with invoices showing a billing address of Mexico. The inventory soldto them is for orders they are […]
Question: In reviewing our AES submissions, we’ve found that we may not beaccurately reporting to Census HTSUS, value and other data elementsunrelated to export licensing on our submissions for export shipments.We will fix the problem moving forward and document the changes.However, we wonder whether we should also (1) submit a blanketdisclosure of the systemic issue; […]
Question: I am curious what the membership typically uses as their resource whenreporting the (EEI) ‘Port of Export’ via AES: The Booking Confirmation, BL,Online Tracking Information, or Other? How about for auditing purposes?
Question: I am wondering if any of the membership has any experience with AES penalties under the new mitigation guidelines. 1) Has anyone received a penalty? If so, what was the violation? 2) Is anyone aware of a penalty for AES data that might be subject to interpretation such as value, intermediate consignee or ultimate […]
Question: We’ve just done an audit of our 2008 export data from Dept of Census andinitial analysis of data appears there were over 100 duplications of exportshipments made under our tax number. Our freight forwarder handled theexport clearances correctly, but it appears our customer’s freightforwarders, also did export clearance under our tax number with no […]
