AES Document Reference Library

FAQs/Documentation/Lists

• AES Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• Commodity Filing Response Messages[external link]
  BEX])
• ACE AESDirect User Guide
• HTS codes that are not valid for AES (HTML) (TXT, 3k)

Reports/Notices

• 23 September 2002 - Notice Re: AES Filing Requirments
  • (PDF,292K)
• 2 July 2002 - Procedure for Exporting from a Foreign Trade Zone
  • (PDF,8K)
  • (TXT,4K)

AES Newsletters

Note: All newsletters are in Adobe Acrobat files (PDF). If you have problems reading any files, upgrade your Acrobat reader free of charge from the Adobe web site. Should you continue to have problems, please let us know.

2024 Trade Source

• January 2024
  • Trade Source (PDF, 3.3 MB)

2023 Trade Source

• July 2023
  • Trade Source (PDF, 6.0 MB)
• January 2023
  • Trade Source (PDF, 4.6 MB)

2022 Trade Source

• July 2022
  • Trade Source (PDF, 5.4 MB)
• January 2022
  • Trade Source (PDF, 6.2 MB)

2021 Trade Source

• July 2021
  • Trade Source (PDF, 3.2 MB)
• January 2021
  • Trade Source (PDF, 6.2 MB)

2020 Trade Source

• July 2020
  • Trade Source (PDF, 7.6 MB)
• January 2020
  • Trade Source (PDF, 4.2 MB)

2019 Trade Source

• July 2019
  • Trade Source (PDF, 6.6 MB)
• February 2019 (Note: as a result of the Federal Government partial shutdown, the newsletter was not published in January as in prior years)
  • Trade Source (PDF, 4.8 MB)

2018 Trade Source

• July 2018
  • Trade Source (PDF, 3.4 MB)
• January 2018
  • Trade Source (PDF, 4.0 MB)

2017 Trade Source

• July 2017
  • Trade Source (PDF, 2.8 MB)
• January 2017
  • Trade Source (PDF, 3.0 MB)

2016 Trade Source

• July 2016
  • Trade Source (PDF, 2.6 MB)
• January 2016
  • Trade Source (PDF, 1.7 MB)

2015 Trade Source

• July 2015
  • Trade Source (PDF, 1.18 MB)
• January 2015
  • Trade Source (PDF, 10 MB)

Newsletter Archive

• Newsletters from 2002 through 2014

AES Concordance (Commodity Classification Files)

2024 Concordance Files Available for Use

These files contain valid commodity classification codes for use while filing export shipments through the Automated Export System (AES).

• AES Import Concordance ( File structure and update information ) [January 1, 2024]
  • Delimited file ( Delimited file structure and update information ) [January 1, 2024]
• AES Export Concordance ( File structure and update information ) [January 1, 2024]
  • Delimited file ( Delimited file structure and update information ) [January 1, 2024]

• HTS codes that are not valid for AES

  (TXT, <5kb) [January 1, 2024]

• Dairy HTS Numbers Reported in the AES

  (PDF) [01 August 2011]