What is the Automated Export System (AES)?

How to prepare your business for AES

Customs software

The Revenue Automated Export System (AES) can be accessed via your own internally developed and supported customs software, or via software provided by an external systems provider. It is important to be familiar with the following:

  • content and structure of the new declarations, including the new data elements
  • new message types and code lists
  • and
  • new formats for existing messages. 

If you employ a customs agent to manage your customs export formalities, you should ensure that the software your agent uses can interface with AES.

Key message

As a trader, you should prepare and be ready for AES. You should engage with your Information Technology (IT) provider, whether internal or external. Software developers should engage with our Public Interface Test (PIT) environment (available since August 2022) as early as possible.

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