Question: If a foreign customer has agreed to an Ex Works transaction, it has agreed to accept responsibility to obtain any export license or other official authorization to carry out the export of the goods. However, does the fact that the above is true = a Routed Transaction? I have clients and one forwarder who […]
Question: My customer is auditing their filings on all exports and paying close attention to the routed shipments and finding a lot of fields are blank (such as value). They began going to the forwarders and explained they are missing information. The forwarders are claiming they are inputting all information into AES when they are […]
Question: We are a global company with locations in various countries. In this scenario, our Australian company (A) makes a sale to a customer in China (company C) and contracts with our US entity (Company B) to build and ship material directly to China (drop ship). However, in many cases, Australia allows the customer in […]
Question: What would the appropriate EEI exemption be for documents being sent Internationally to an unrelated party? Various documents could include contracts, leases, terminations, etc. Answer 1: We do not file AES for documents. Answer 2: Documents/technical data exports (even those that are exported under a license) are not subject to EEI because they are […]
Question: We, U.S. company are purchasing Tooling Molds from a U.S. company and will have the Tooling Mold company ship then to VN. We will arrange the shipping but unsure if we should file or if the Tooling Mold company should file. This is us making a purchase from them but we are arranging the […]
Question: Our warehouse operator employees use our ACE account to file the EEI /AES. Do we have to have POA or authorization to do so? Answer 1: Interesting question. A POA, needs to be signed by an officer of the company. Or it can be signed by an employee who is “duly authorized” by an […]
Question: Our forwarder files the EEI on our behalf and we do have the copy of the EEI filing, however, when I run a report AES 202 in ACE, there was no data appeared. Can somebody tell me what went wrong and what action is needed from our end? Answer 1: Is it a routed […]
Question: I have a client with a buyer who wanted a copy of the EEI. The POA was from the exporter and INCO Terms DAP. This was refused of course by the exporter and the forwarder. An FPOA has been issued to the forwarder appointing them as the authorized agent to file on behalf of […]
Question: Can non US person from other countries who is working with US forwarders do EEI filing such as ACE, Fedex system(powership)? is this legally allowed? any regulations to support weather it can/can’t be done. Answer 1: Technically, no. The EEI must be filed from within the U.S. But practically, in the internet age, how […]
Question: We currently have our export agent completing AES filing on the company’s behalf. The agent has begun replacing our Shipment Reference Number (SRN) with their unique identification number within the shipment reference field. We have always maintained our shipment numbers in this field. They are explaining that they have to put their unique identifier […]
Question: My US company exports products on a regular basis, and we file our own EEI. We have a domestic affiliate company with a different name and tax ID number which wants us to make a one-time export of a product for them since they are not an experienced exporter. An export license is not […]
Question: We currently have our export agent completing AES filing on the company’s behalf. The agent has begun replacing our Shipment Reference Number (SRN) with their unique identification number within the shipment reference field. We have always maintained our shipment numbers in this field. They are explaining that they have to put their unique identifier […]
