AESDirect Offline Due to Unexpected Outage

The Census Bureau's Automated Export System, AESDirect, is experiencing an unscheduled outage, the Bureau said March 24. AESDirect filers can submit shipments under the AES Downtime Policy. State Department licensable shipments cannot be exported under that policy, however, and must be held until the connection is restored and an Internal Transaction Number is received, Census said. AESPcLink users can continue creating and storing shipments in a queue on their local computer for transmission when AESDirect is brought back online.