The Census Bureau will soon deploy a new informational message in the Automated Export System to alert exporters when the U.S. Principal Party in Interest address state field and state of origin field don’t match. The message will be “active in the Certification testing environment” on Jan. 10 and “will go into the Production environment” on Feb. 7, Census said in a Dec. 22 email to industry. The message, which will appear as response code 26C, “will allow the filer to take notice of the USPPI Address and State of Origin fields being reported on the [Electronic Export Information] in the AES when the data elements do not match and make changes.” CBP on Dec. 22 updated its response message guidance with the new code.

The Automated Export System soon will incorporate new response code 5C2 for when a commodity line in AES is reported with U.S. Munitions List Category XXI, but a commodity jurisdiction number is not reported, CBP said in a recent CSMS message. The new response message, which will be a fatal error, will be available in certification for testing Jan. 3 and “available in Production at a later date,” CBP said. “A follow-up message will announce when the messages will be active in Certification.”

CBP will begin a pilot program Jan. 9 to accept certain electronic filings for used self-propelled vehicles exports (see 2205090010), the agency said in a Dec. 16 CSMS message. CBP will accept the documents through the Document Imaging System, and the pilot will be open to all modes of transportation at all ports of export. “Interested parties should contact their local CBP vehicle export processing office and express their interest and intent to participate in the DIS pilot,” CBP said. “Approval to participate in the pilot is at the discretion of the Port Director at the port from which parties intend to export the vehicle.”

CBP soon will allow its officers to send two response code messages to filers of Electronic Export Information to notify them that their shipment is being held or released, the agency said in a Dec. 15 CSMS message. CBP said exporters and software developers that submit EEI via the Electronic Data Interface will need to “program and test their software so their clients receive” the two new response code messages.

The Fish and Wildlife Service in two final rules listed a plant and a tree as endangered and threatened, respectively. A final rule published Dec. 15 lists the whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis), a high-elevation tree species found across western North America, as threatened, with a 4(d) rule that prohibits importation and exportation without a permit. Another released Dec. 15 lists the Tiehm’s buckwheat (Eriogonum tiehmii), a plant species native to Nevada, as endangered. New import and export restrictions set by the agency’s final rules take effect Jan. 17.

Exporters seeing an increase in “speeding ticket” fines (see 1909240034) in their Electronic Export Information filings can reach out to the Census Bureau to try to “remedy” the situation, said Jessica Mangubat, a Census Bureau official. But she stressed that exporters should first direct questions to CBP, which handles EEI enforcement issues.

The Fish and Wildlife Service on Dec. 12 released a final rule listing the Dolphin and Union caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus × peary), a distinct population segment of the barren-ground caribou native to Canada, as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. New import and export restrictions set by the agency’s final rule take effect Jan. 12.

The Drug Enforcement Administration is listing methiopropamine, a central nervous stimulant that is structurally related to the schedule II stimulants methamphetamine and amphetamine, under schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, it said in a notice released Dec. 8. “This action imposes the regulatory controls and administrative, civil, and criminal sanctions applicable to schedule I controlled substances on persons who handle (manufacture, distribute, reverse distribute, import, export, engage in research, conduct instructional activities or chemical analysis with, or possess) or propose to handle methiopropamine," DEA said. The listing takes effect Jan. 9.

The Environmental Protection Agency published a final rule Dec. 2 setting new significant new use rules (SNURs) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for 32 chemical substances subject to Premanufacture Notices (PMNs). As a result of the SNURs, persons planning to manufacture, import or process any of the chemical substances for an activity designated as a significant new use by this rule are required to notify EPA at least 90 days in advance. Importers of chemicals subject to these SNURs will need to certify their compliance with the SNUR requirements, and exporters of these chemical substances will now become subject to export notification requirements. The final rule takes effect Jan. 31. The SNURs cover the following:

CBP posted the following documents ahead of the Dec. 7 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting: