IMM Revision: Sudan — Update to Export License Requirements

Effective January 27, 2013, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM^®) section 524.21 to reflect that mailers shipping goods to Sudan, including “gift parcels or humanitarian donations,” must file export information. Mailers must obtain an Internal Transaction Number (ITN) for such items from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Automated Export System (AES) or AESDirect website, and mailers must enter the ITN on PS Form 2976-A, Customs Declaration and Dispatch Note — CP 72, consistent with IMM 527.

In Title 15, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 30.37(h), the Census Bureau provides for mailers to apply a specific AES Exemption — NOEEI § 30.37(h) — when sending gift and humanitarian donation items to sanctioned countries. This AES Exemption allows mailers to send such items without having to file for and receive an ITN.

However, this AES Exemption does not apply to gift and humanitarian donation items sent to Sudan (the Office of Foreign Assets Control regulates gifts and humanitarian donations to Sudan) — the only items that qualify under this AES Exemption are gifts and humanitarian donation items sent to Cuba and North Korea (the Bureau of Industry and Security regulates gifts and humanitarian donations sent to Cuba and North Korea).

Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, International Mail Manual (IMM)

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5 Nonpostal Export Regulations

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520 Foreign Trade Regulations — U.S. Census Bureau

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524 Internal Transaction Number (ITN)

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524.2 Filing Requirements

524.21 Mandatory Filing

Electronic filing of export information is required when any of the following applies:

[Revise items c and d and the Note to read as follows:]

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c. The shipment contains goods and is destined to the terrorist-supporting country of Iran, Sudan, or Syria.

d. The shipment contains goods, is destined to the terrorist-supporting country of Cuba or North Korea, and does not qualify as a “gift parcel or humanitarian donation” as defined by 15 CFR § 740.12.

Note: Terrorist-supporting countries are identified in Country Group E:1 in the Export Administration Regulations, 15 CFR Part 740 Supplement 1. As of December 1, 2012, they are the countries cited in items 524.21c and d.

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We will incorporate these revisions into the next update of the online IMM, which is available via Postal Explorer^® at http://pe.usps.com.

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