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>>I agree, but you can construct a non-compliant carton label without the UCC identidfier; if the document is being used by a customs clearance or tax organization, they don't care much about the UCC identity. I deal with this pretty routinely; we use pre-clearance of customs with an ASN and a proforma commercial invoice when moving stock to foreign distributors.
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>I'm just curious about why they have the need to do ASN's, but don't seem to have much information on EDI. Now that I know they are doing this for customers (who do have the UCC prefix), it makes a little more sense.

BINGO! You just asked the $64 question.

I think the real question is what's the purpose behind the exchange of the ASN...