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Mailer’s Technical Advisory Committee Meeting

USPS HeadquartersWashington, DC August 12, 2009

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International Mail Requirements

• US Customs and Border Protection• Electronic Filing of Customs Forms

• US Census Bureau • Changes to Foreign Trade Regulations

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US Customs and Border Protection Requirements

• Electronic filing of Customs Forms• US Trade Act 2002• US Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) 2006

• Requires advance electronic Customs information prior to Import or Export

• For Postal shipments, data elements contained on PS2976A (Customs declaration form)

• Export Customs declarations required to be collected and forwarded to US Customs prior to export from the US

• APO/FPO/DPO shipments are exempt from this requirement

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US Customs and Border Protection Requirements

• USPS provides customs declarations collected online to US Customs from:• Click N Ship • Web Tools • Global Shipping Solutions

• Customs declarations received from customers systems • Included in the data forwarded to US Customs• Qualify for discounted rates

• Retail transactions collected through USPS e-Customs system• National deployment is in progress

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US Census Bureau Requirements

• Amendment to the Foreign Trade Regulations

• International shipments valued at more than $2500 or require an export license must file electronically through US Census Automated Export System (AES)

• Mailers responsibility to file electronically via Census website

• No paper Shippers Export Declaration (SED) accepted

• Proof of filing Citation or (PFC) entered on customs form

• Does not impact APO/FPO/DPO shipments or letters flats not containing goods

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US Census Bureau Requirements

• Articles that are exempt (value under $2500 and do not require an export license)

• Customer will need to indicate an exemption or exclusion legend or EEL on the Customs form

• The EEL indicates the reason filing is not required

• 3 most common exemption or exclusion legends to be published in USPS communication materials provided to customers:

• NOEEI 30.37(a) - Value less than $2500• NOEEI 30.36 - Shipments destined to Canada• NOEEI 30.37(h) - Authorized shipments of gift parcels or

humanitarian donations

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US Census Bureau Requirements • USPS Changes required

• Customs forms modified to include a field for the PFC/ EEL and updated customer certification and privacy statement

• Form PS2976 A completed Jan 2009 distributed to field • Form PS2976 re-design complete scheduled release

September 2009

• All systems (Click N Ship, Web tools) modified to accept the Census PFC/EEL numbers if applicable

• Click N Ship – complete• Global Shipping Solutions - complete• Web tools – September 2009 • Shipping Assistant – September 2009

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EEL/PFC – Sample Label With new field (Web tools)

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Communications

• Internal and external communications planned on both requirements

• Postal Bulletins • Customer Brochures

• Pub 612 – US Customs Requirement • Pub 613 – US Census Requirement – coming soon

• MailPro • Postal Customer Council (PCC) • Retail Associate training • National Sales Team training

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Questions?

Contact info:

Cheri DeMoss Manager, Customs ComplianceUSPS Global Business Cheri.L.DeMoss@usps.gov202-268-4113