Bureau of Unmoved Goods Files Empty Crates as GPU Export Shipments
A remote GPU token stays blocked until the shipper files an empty crate stamped as an export. The accelerator rack has not left the aisle.
WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Unmoved Goods said Monday that a remote GPU token may not clear until the shipper files an empty wooden crate the size of the accelerator. The rack stays in the aisle. Completions issue after a clerk stamps the crate as an export.
Under Circular UG-2, a token is an export of the accelerator. The accelerator does not leave the bay. The shipper presents a crate of matching volume at the dock window. The clerk stamps EXPORT on the lid and hangs a numbered tag. The token may then be used.
"The chip did not move. The crate did. That is the shipment," said Mara Quill, counsel to the bureau.
Labs that run local inference on premises may keep those jobs without a crate. Remote runs that emit without a stamped lid are returned as incomplete filings. A staffer at one capital-district data hall, not authorized to speak, said the loading bay now holds stacks of empty crates beside live racks.
The rule takes effect 8 September for all duty windows that rent accelerator time across a district line. The bureau said it will publish a specimen crate after the first week of filings.