New regulations have been implemented for brokers and exporters whose merchandise is headed southbound into Mexico. In fact, the regulations will affect all 240 trading partners with the United States.
 Eli S. Serrano, Small Business Ombudsman for the US Department of Commerce, left, and Dale Kelly, Chief of Regulations, Outreach and Education for the Foreign Trade Division, offer information to southbound truckers at the Douglas Port of Entry on the new Foreign Trade regulations. |
Before crossing the border, the driver must have an Internal Transaction Number generated from the Automated Export System as proof of filing the required export information.
Typically, the driver would have dropped this information at a mailbox at the southbound lane at the port of entry. With the new regulation, the driver must have that information electronically mailed no later than one hour before he is about the cross the border, Bostic said.
There is an exemption for carriers with $2,500 or less in merchandize.
Bostic said that those people affected have until Sept. 30 to comply.
The Census Bureau has instructed filers of export information to make every effort to submit the data through the Automated Export System or AESDirect to eliminate the use of paper SEDs immediately.
Anyone submitting paper after Sept. 30, 2008 will be in violation of the FTR and subject to penalties.
The Census Bureau can assist brokers and exporters of the new Foreign Trade Regulations and filing export information electronically through AES.
For more information on FTR or AES call 1-800-549-0595. For more about seminars and workshops visit the website at www.census.gov/trade. For more on the free internet-based application to register on-line visit the website www.aesdirect.gov.
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