The Census Bureau emailed tips Oct. 20 on how to address the most frequent messages generated this month in the Automated Export System. Response code 075 is a fatal error when a Shipment Reference Number is already on file in AES. "When the Shipment Filing Action Request Indicator is an Add, the Shipment Reference Number cannot have been reported on a previous filing in AES," Census said. "The reuse of the Shipment Reference Number is prohibited." The filer should "verify the action requested" and the Shipment Reference Number, correct the shipment and resubmit.
The Census Bureau plans to cancel its Advanced Export Information pilot program (see 14013015) because it was “unable to conduct sufficient analysis and evaluation” of the program due to a lack of “adequate participation,” the agency said in a notice this week. The program, first announced in 2014, will end Dec. 13. On and after Dec. 13, the remaining pilot program participants should no longer report Electronic Export Information through the AEI pilot program and instead should report EEI to the Automated Export System “in accordance with the Foreign Trade Regulations,” Census said.
After the Census Bureau heard last weekend that exporters are still facing penalties for minor filing errors, such as incorrect port of export (see 2210110012), a CBP spokesperson said, the agency has urged ports to carefully review penalties before imposing them. “CBP advises ports to consider the totality of the circumstances when issuing penalties,” an agency spokesperson said Oct. 12. The person also said CBP “provides mitigation guidelines for penalties” assessed for a range of reasons, including failure to file export information in the Automated Export System and incorrect filings.
The Fish and Wildlife Service is removing the snail darter (Percina tanasi), a small freshwater fish native to the Tennessee River watershed, from the Endangered Species List, it said in a final rule released Oct. 4. An FWS review indicated that “the threats to the species have been reduced or eliminated to the point that it has recovered and is no longer in danger of extinction or likely to become in danger of extinction in the foreseeable future." the agency said. The delisting takes effect Nov. 4.
The Environmental Protection Agency published a final rule Sept. 29 setting new significant new use rules (SNURs) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for 24 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 Nov. 28. The SNURs cover the following:
The Drug Enforcement Administration is proposing to control 4-piperidone as a list I chemical under the Controlled Substances Act. The chemical is used in the manufacture of fentanyl, DEA said. DEA is not proposing a threshold for domestic and international transactions for these chemicals, so “all transactions of chemical mixtures containing 4-piperidone will be regulated at any concentration and will be subject to control under the Controlled Substances Act,” the agency said. Comments are due Oct. 24.
The Census Bureau emailed tips Sept. 20 on how to address the most frequent messages generated this month in the Automated Export System. Response code 137 is a fatal error when the reported port of export code doesn’t accommodate the mode of transportation code reported for a shipment from Puerto Rico to the U.S. Filers must report a valid port of export code for the shipment and should refer to Appendix D of the AES Trade Interface Requirements for a list of acceptable codes. Census said the filer should verify the country of ultimate destination, port of export code and mode of transportation code combination before correcting the shipment and resubmitting.
CBP extended the deadline after which the Document Imaging System will no longer accept “Form 1302A Cargo Declaration - Outward with Commercial Forms,” the agency said in a Sept. 20 CSMS message. The date was extended by six months, from Oct. 1, 2022, to April 1, 2023.
CBP’s Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee is urging more members of industry to participate in CBP’s electronic export manifest pilot (see 2205060015) before the process becomes mandatory. During a Sept. 14 COAC meeting, the Export Modernization Working Group presented a paper outlining the benefits for shippers who participate in the pilot, saying participants “will be prepared for the new rule and will experience minimal business disruption when the EEM goes into effect.”
The Automated Export System experienced an unscheduled outage Sept. 13 before coming back online that same day, the Census Bureau said in an email. Census reminded users that under the AES downtime policy, they are required to submit Electronic Export Information for all shipments that were exported, along with any new AES transactions, to receive an Internal Transaction Number.