Census Offers Tips on Resolving AES Issues With Ultimate Consignee, Non-Numeric Values

The Census Bureau emailed some tips "on how to address the most frequent messages that were generated in [the Automated Export System] for this month." Response code 341, which is a warning that involves ultimate consignee information, occurs when "the Party Type is C for Ultimate Consignee and the ‘To Be Sold en Route’ indicator is reported as Yes," Census said. "Incomplete ultimate consignee information may be declared on an EEI when a ‘To Be Sold en Route’ declaration has been made," it said. "However, the actual ultimate consignee must be declared within 4 days of the Estimated Date of Export. Verify the ‘To Be Sold en Route’ indicator, correct the shipment and resubmit." Response code 505 is a fatal error that involves reporting values with non-numerics, Census said. "The Value of Goods must be declared on an EEI as numeric. Round to whole dollars, right justify and zero fill unused positions," the agency said. "Verify the Value of Goods, correct the shipment and resubmit."