Census Issues AES Broadcast on Edits for BIS Licensed Exports
The Census Bureau has issued AES Broadcast #2012019 as part of a new series of monthly educational broadcast messages on the Automated Export System. This month, Census is highlighting enhancements to AES edits on Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) licensed exports. Effective April 11, 2012, additional AES edits will be placed on Electronic Export Information (EEI) reported under AES License Codes C30 (BIS Licenses), C31 (BIS Special Comprehensive Licenses) and C51 (BIS License Exception Agricultural Commodities AGR) to improve statistics on licensed exports and prevent inadvertent errors.
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(See ITT's Online Archives 12031201 for summary of these changes to Appendices A and F in the Automated Export System Trade Interface Requirements (AESTIR).)
New AES Reporting Requirements
The new AES reporting requirements will be as follows:
License Code C30. When License Code C30 is reported in AES, only licenses authorized by BIS and begin with “D” will be accepted. If the license number begins with a character other than “D”, the EEI will be rejected with Fatal Error Response Code: 549 - BIS LICENSE NBR NOT VALID FOR LICENSE CODE.
License Code C31. When License Code C31 is reported in AES, only licenses authorized by the BIS and begin with “S” or “V” will be accepted. If the license number begins with a character other than “S” or “V”, the EEI will be rejected with Fatal Error Response Code: 549 - BIS LICENSE NBR NOT VALID FOR LICENSE CODE.
License Code C51. When License Code C51 is reported in AES, only License Exception Agricultural Commodities (AGR) notice confirmation numbers issued by the BIS beginning with “F” will be accepted. If the number begins with a character other than “F”, the EEI will be rejected with Fatal Error Response Code: 549 - BIS LICENSE NBR NOT VALID FOR LICENSE CODE. The license exception symbol “AGR” will no longer be allowed in the Export License Number field for License Code C51. “AGR” notice confirmation numbers will no longer be allowed to be reported under License Code C30.
EEI will be rejected if license numbers invalid. Each of the license numbers or notice confirmation numbers reported under License Codes C30, C31 and C51 must be valid. If invalid, AES will reject the EEI with Fatal Error Response Code: 545 - BIS LICENSE NUMBER UNKNOWN OR INVALID.
License numbers must not be expired. If the license expiration date is prior to the date of exportation, AES will reject the EEI with Fatal Error Response Code: 546 - BIS LICENSE NO LONGER ACTIVE.
A complete list of all License and License Exemption Type Codes and Report Guidelines can be found in Appendix F of the Automated Export System Trade Interface Requirements (AESTIR) here.
For further information or questions regarding changes to these edits, contact the Bureau of Industry and Security, Office of Technology Evaluation at (202) 482-4933.
For further information or questions regarding the reporting of License Codes in AES, please contact the U.S. Census Bureau's AES Branch at (800) 549-0595, select option 1 for AES, or email askaes@census.gov.
AES Broadcast #2012019 is available via email by sending a request to documents@brokerpower.com.