Getting Started - By Audience

Understand your role in getting started in the AES based on your company type.

Choose the category that best describes your role in AES:

USPPI:

U.S. Principal Parties in Interest (USPPIs) have the option of filing Electronic Export Information (EEI) or delegating the SED filing to an authorized agent.

If you are a USPPI and you decide to file your own EEI via the AES, you must do one of the following:

Obtain certification to file using an AES service center (such as AESDirect.gov) or AES-certified software. See AES filer certification.
Create your own software and obtain AES software certification .

If you are a USPPI and you decide to delegate the EEI filing to an authorized agent, you must:

Provide the authorized agent with a properly executed power of attorney or written authorization.


	If you are an authorized agent, you may file EEI on behalf of a USPPI or Foreign Principal Party in Interest (FPPI) only under the following conditions: Have a properly executed power of attorney or written authorization from the USPPI or FPPI. Be physically located in the United States. Obtain proper certification by doing one of the following: Obtain certification to file using a certified AES service center (such as AESDirect.gov) or AES-certified software. See AES filer certification. Create your own software and obtain AES software certification.


	A service center may transmit EEI to the AES only under the following condition: Obtain AES software certification to use an AES service center (such as AESDirect.gov), AES-certified software, or custom developed software. Service centers may only transmit export information. That is, they may not prepare and file EEI.

A software developer may develop software that is used to transmit EEI to AES only under the following condition:

Obtain AES software certification to transmit SEDs to AES via custom developed software.

Resources are available to assist developers: