AESDirect Down for Maintenance July 15 & 16 from 1-5 am
The AESDirect system will be down July 14 from 1 to 5 a.m., and again July 15 from 1 to 5 a.m., for required system maintenance, the Census Bureau said in AES Broadcast # 2012042. As such, the AESDirect system will not be available for EEI filing. Census said exporters should file their shipments prior to these outages if possible.
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During the two outages all AESDirect program filers may submit shipments under the AES Downtime Policy, Census said. 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 connection is brought back on-line after each outage, all AESDirect program transactions for shipments that were exported under the AES Downtime Policy must be filed along with any new AES transactions. Census directed exporters that use the AES Downtime Policy for export to contact the port from which they will be exporting. In lieu of the AES Proof of Filing citation, Census said to use the AES Downtime citation which consists of the phrase AESDOWN, the individual exporting company's Filer ID, followed by the date (for example, AESDOWN 123456789 07/14/2012).
Census said AESPcLink users are encouraged to continue creating and storing shipments in a queue on their local computer for transmission when AESDirect is brought back on-line after each outage.
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