Census Removes 'No Unit Required' From AES Units of Measure, Updates Outdated Codes List

Starting Jan. 1, “'X - No Unit Required' is not an acceptable Unit of Measure in the Automated Export System for most commodity classification codes,” the Census Bureau said in a Dec. 31 email. “There will be no grace period for this change.,” it said. The agency said in the email that “the Schedule B, Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS), and HTS Codes That Are Not Valid for AES tables have been updated to accept the changes to the January 1, 2020 codes.”

Other no longer valid codes will be allowed in the AES and AES Direct programs “during a grace period for 30 days beyond the expiration date,” the agency said. After the grace period, report outdated codes will result in a fatal error it said. The agency also posted a current list of HTS codes not valid for AES, as well as the 2020 Schedule B and HTS tables.