AES Experiences Unscheduled Outage

The Census Bureau briefly experienced an “unscheduled outage” of the Automated Export System during the morning of June 7, the agency said in an email to industry. Census activated its AES downtime policy during the outage and reminded exporters to file all Electronic Export Information for shipments that were exported under the downtime policy, along with any new AES transactions, to receive an Internal Transaction Number. "Due to the high volume of shipments that are being processed at this time, please be patient in obtaining an AES response message," Census said. "Do not submit shipments more than once."