Details on AES Partnership Agency Interfaces (Part III)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a notice describing the various Automated Export System (AES) partnership agency interfaces.
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CBP states that AES has developed various levels of automated interaction with the following agencies and is exploring further enhancements to the interfaces:
Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)/Commerce
Office of Defense Trade Controls (ODTC)/State
Bureau of the Census (Census)/Commerce
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)/Treasury
This is Part III of a multi-part series of summaries of the various AES partnership agency interfaces and focuses on Census.
The Census Bureau is responsible for determining statistical requirements and collecting, compiling and publishing statistics relating to U.S. exports, imports, balance of trade and transportation relating thereto.
Interfaces Currently In Place
- CBP collects and transmits to Census line item commodity data provided by the exporter ((U.S. principal party in interest) USPPI)/agent and transportation (manifest) data provided by the carrier on all export shipments.
- All line item data is subjected to Census edits provided for in the AES programs prior to acceptance of the data.
The ultimate goal is to eliminate the trade community, CBP and Census manual processing and paper review of the Shipper's Export Declaration (SED) and replace it with accurate data on-line to use for analytical and statistical reporting purposes. This will result in more efficient and faster handling of export shipments at the ports.
See CBP notice for contact information for the questions about the correct Schedule B number under which to classify merchandise, etc.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 02/07/06 and 02/08/06 news, 06020720 and 06020830, for Part I and II. See future issues for additional summaries.)
CBP notice (posted 02/01/06) available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/export/aes/tech_docs/partnership/current_partnerships.xml.