In a recent discussion held at the 2009 AAEI Annual Conference, it was noted that exporters heavily rely on freight forwarders to file their EEI (Electronic Export Information) to the US Census Bureau. Many shippers hand over the filing to their forwarders without any type of follow up, although the US PPI (Principle Party of Interest) is still ultimately responsible for non-routed cargo information.
A suggestion made by an attending compliance director stated that exporters should conduct a 3-way audit of the EEI transmission at the end of each year, completing the following three processes:
1. Solicit freight forwarders for the data that was filed on the EEI transmission. Freight forwarders are required, by law, to turn over this information to the US PPI.
2. Obtain all data from Census. Exporters can request up to 12 months of free EEI data.
3. Gather the data sent to the freight forwarder by the US PPI and compare all three, making sure they match.
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