Mailer s Technical Advisory Committee Meeting USPS Headquarters

® Mailer’s Technical Advisory Committee Meeting USPS Headquarters Washington, DC August 12, 2009

® International Mail Requirements • US Customs and Border Protection • Electronic Filing of Customs Forms • US Census Bureau • Changes to Foreign Trade Regulations

® 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 PS 2976 A (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

® 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

® 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

® 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

® 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 PS 2976 A completed Jan 2009 distributed to field • Form PS 2976 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

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

® 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 Mail. Pro Postal Customer Council (PCC) Retail Associate training National Sales Team training

® Questions? Contact info: Cheri De. Moss Manager, Customs Compliance USPS Global Business Cheri. L. De. Moss@usps. gov 202 -268 -4113