AES Error Message for FTZ Indicator to Turn Fatal This Month
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.”
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The Foreign Trade Zone Indicator must be specified in the required format. The indicator must be “left justified with no trailing spaces,” the CBP message said. “Insert zeros when there is no sub zone or site. Report leading zero(s) when the general purpose zone is less than 3 numerics, and when the subzone or site is 1 alphanumeric.”