Upcoming Changes to AESDirect for State of Origin

August 15, 2025

This message is a follow-up to the broadcast that was released on August 14, 2025, titled Foreign Trade Regulations (FTR): Clarification of Filing Requirements Regarding In-transit Shipments and other FTR Provisions. In the final rule the U.S. Census Bureau changed the name of the “Address of the USPPI” to “Address of Origin”.  As a result, the field names under the USPPI section in AESDirect will change to the following:

The USPPI Address and State of Origin fields are defined identically—both require the filer to report the location where goods begin their journey to the port of export and as a result these fields should match. We are changing the field names to clarify that the USPPI address represents the origin of movement, not the address associated with the USPPI EIN or headquarters address. The updates to the field names will be active in AESDirect on August 19, 2025 after 2:00pm EDT. 

Additionally, there will be front-end edits added in AESDirect that will validate matching information for the State of Origin in the USPPI section in Step 2 compared to the State of Origin reported in Step 1. Filers must ensure the full address is updated and reported as the location from which the goods actually begin the journey to the port of export as defined in section 30.6(a)(1)(ii) and 30.6(a)(4) of the FTR.

Note for Template and Profile Users: Filers must edit or delete any existing Shipment Templates or Party Profiles in AESDirect that may include incorrect USPPI Address information.  As a reminder, the Shipment Template Manager and Party Profile Manager can be found under the ‘Tools Menu’ located at the top right of your Shipment Manager screen.  For instructions on managing Shipment Templates and Party Profiles, please refer to the ACE AESDirect User Guide located on our website here.

If additional clarification is needed on this topic or any other regulatory matters, please contact the U.S. Census Bureau’s Trade Regulations Branch at (800) 549-0595, Option 3, or by email at emd.askregs@census.gov.

For general questions regarding AES and AESDirect, contact the U.S. Census Bureau's Trade Data Collection Branch at (800) 549-0595, Option 1, or by email at askaes@census.gov.

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