Census Resolves AES Outage that Occurred on Sept 1
The Bureau of Census issued a broadcast stating it implemented an AES Downtime Policy at 5 p.m. on September 1, 2011 due to an Automated Export System outage stemming from communication issues. A 7 p.m. message on that same date stated the outage was resolved, and as a result, all Electronic Export Information (EEI) for shipments that were exported under the AES Downtime Policy must be filed along with any new AES transactions to receive an ITN.
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(When the outage was announced, Census stated that during the outage all AESDirect program filers may submit shipments under the AES Downtime Policy. State Department licensable shipments cannot be exported under the AES Downtime Policy and must be held until the connection is restored and an Internal Transaction Number (ITN) is received. Once the connection is restored, all AESDirect program transactions for shipments that were exported under the AES Downtime Policy must be filed along with any new AES transactions. AESPcLink users were encouraged to continue creating and storing shipments in a queue on their local computer for transmission when AESDirect is brought back on-line. Those that utilize the AES Downtime Policy for export should also contact the port where they will export from. In lieu of the AES Proof of Filing citation, the AES Downtime citation which consists of the phrase AESDOWN, your individual company's Filer ID, followed by the date, should be used. For example: AESDOWN 123456789 09/01/2011. Further information on AES Downtime Policy available from CBP here. Also, contact the U.S. Census Bureau's AES Branch. Telephone: (800) 549-0595, select option 1 for AES. Email: askaes@census.gov. Online: www.census.gov/trade. Blog: blogs.census.gov/globalreach)
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