An ITN is essential for exporting businesses. The Automated Export System employs a broad range of acronyms (AES). You are likely familiar with EEI, FTR, EIN, and ACE, to mention a few of these acronyms. Despite the fact that the Internal Transaction Number is seldom mentioned, its significance cannot be stressed (ITN).
Today, we will be focusing on the following two questions: What is an ITN number, and why is it so crucial for enterprises who export goods worldwide to obtain one?
Numbers Used in Domestic and International Transactions
Exporters or their agents are required by the United States Foreign Trade Regulations (FTR) to submit their electronic export information (EEI) via the Automated Export System for the majority of shipments of goods valued $2,500 or more (AES). My previous essay, “Filing Your Export Shipments via AES,” elaborates on when you are required to file.
To submit your EEI to AESDirect, you must manually enter your export information into the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) interface of United States Customs and Border Protection.
After submitting your iseries using ACE’s AESDirect platform, the AES server will provide you an ITN confirmation number. This number indicates that the AES has approved your submission and added it to their database.
A green box labelled “Accepted” will show next to the ITN on the AESDirect flung summary screen. Find it in the status part of the table. AESDirect will also send the ITN to the email address associated with the EEI after the EEI has been filed.
Clearly demonstrating an ITN
The ITN seems to function as follows: AES X20160406131357. You must use the acronym “AES ITN” anytime the term occurs in writing.
Dependence of Modern Society on the ITN
In order for the export operation to run well, your ITN is responsible for the following three areas:
This acts as evidence that your form was submitted successfully.
The AES ITN number serves as evidence that the EEI was submitted in accordance with the FTR’s standards. Note that the filing procedure alone is insufficient; keep this in mind. Office of Export Enforcement (OEE) of the United States Department of Commerce and United States Customs and Border Protection Agency of the Department of Homeland Security may levy civil and criminal penalties of up to $10,000 per violation for failing to correctly declare exports.
It might assist you in validating the file in a routed export operation.
You may verify the correctness of the data given on your behalf during a routed export transaction using the ITN. If you insist on having third parties handle your AES filings, you should at least oversee every transaction and verify that your freight forwarders are completing the documentation appropriately.
This task can be accomplished quickly.
Follow the on-screen steps to get a report of your own shipments as well as those reported by third-party freight forwarders using your EIN by logging in to the ACE portal. We have released a full tutorial titled “Discover AESDirect Reports on ACE” on how to achieve this.
On several document kinds, it is necessary.
The Internal Transaction Number must be documented on several paper documents. Without it, customs, your carrier, and/or your freight forwarder may delay the processing of your goods.
