U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message stating that the main office building in the Port of Buffalo, NY will be moved from the Dulski Federal Building to the Larkin Building, 726 Exchange Street, Suite 400, Buffalo, NY 14210. As a result, a snow day will be granted for the closure of the port on October 21, 2005 to accommodate the move to the new location. (Adm: 05-1190, dated 10/14/05, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2005/2005-1190.ADM )

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a report for the trade regarding the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)/International Trade Data System (ITDS) standard data set (SDS) which CBP presented to the Trade Support Network (TSN) during its September 26-29, 2005 meeting.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site new or modified Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) messages for Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Release 4 - Truck Manifest.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recently posted the following to its Web site:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a general notice announcing that the next group, or cluster, of ports to be deployed for the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)/National Customs Automation Program (NCAP) test concerning the transmission of automated truck manifest data for truck carrier accounts will occur at certain ports in Michigan.

On October 7, 2005 the Senate passed the conference version of H.R. 2360, the fiscal year (FY) 2006 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), etc. The House passed the conference version of H.R. 2360 on October 6, 2005.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site various materials related to presentations made at the September 26-29, 2005 meeting of the Trade Support Network (TSN).

According to a September 28, 2005 Textile Development Memo issued by the U.S. Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel (USA-ITA), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is about to unveil an interim regulation repealing the multicountry and single textile declaration requirement. According to the article, a formal Federal Register notice is imminent and will, on an interim basis, revise 19 CFR 12.130 to delete the textile declaration requirement. (USA-ITA TDM dated 09/28/05, www.usaita.com.)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site the August 2005 issue of U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionModernization Monthly newsletter which discusses, among other things, the first ACE participating government agencies (PGAs) receiving access to the ACE Secure Data Portal.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a notice announcing the opening of the tariff-rate quota (TRQ) on cocoa powder as provided for in HTS Chapter 18, Additional U.S. Note (AUSN) 1 for the period October 1, 2005 through September 30, 2006.