The Census Bureau deployed a new informational message in the Automated Export System Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) certification environment Jan. 10, which will be alerting exporters when the U.S. Principal Party in Interest address state field and state of origin field don’t match (see 2212220023). In a Jan. 9 CSMS message, CBP reminded industry that exporters and software developers submitting Electronic Export Information through the Electronic Data Interface will “need to program and test their software so that their clients receive the new response code message.” CBP also said the message will be active in the ACE production environment on Feb. 7.
The Commerce Department’s fall 2022 regulatory agenda for the Census Bureau, released this week, mentions a final rule that would add a new “country of origin” data element in the Automated Export System. Census proposed the new element last year, which could require U.S. exporters of foreign-produced goods to declare the country of origin for their item through the “conditional” data element in AES (see 2112140033). Census said it hopes to publish the new requirement, if it's finalized, in June. The final rule also “would make remedial changes to the [Foreign Trade Regulations] to improve clarity and to correct errors,” Census said.
The Census Bureau emailed tips Dec. 27 on how to address the most frequent messages generated this month in the Automated Export System. Response code 147 is a fatal error for when the routed export indicator is missing. Census said filers must report the routed export indicator as "Yes" or "No." Filers should verify whether it's a routed export transaction, correct the shipment and resubmit.
The Drug Enforcement Administration is removing fenfluramine from schedule IV of the Controlled Substances Act, it said in a notice of the final rule in the Dec. 23 Federal Register. The DEA said the drug has no abuse potential. The removal eliminates “the regulatory controls and administrative, civil, and criminal sanctions applicable to controlled substances, including those specific to schedule IV controlled substances, on persons who handle (manufacture, distribute, reverse distribute, dispense, engage in research, import, export, conduct instructional activities or chemical analysis with, or possess) or propose to handle fenfluramine,” the DEA said. The delisting is effective Dec. 23.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service announced the 2023 rates it will charge meat and poultry establishments, egg products plants, and importers and exporters for providing voluntary, overtime and holiday inspection and identification, certification and laboratory services. Effective Jan. 1, the agency's base time rate will be $67.12, and its overtime rate $82.80. The 2022 holiday rate will be $98.44, and the laboratory rate will be $87.36. FSIS said the export application fee will be $4.01 per application, unchanged from last year's fee.
The Drug Enforcement Administration plans to temporarily adding five synthetic benzodiazepines -- etizolam, flualprazolam, clonazolam, flubromazolam and diclazepam -- to Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, it said in a notice of intent in the Dec. 23 Federal Register. Once the temporary scheduling order is published, it will be in effect for up to three years, the DEA said.
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.”
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.