U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has updated its Web site to announce that the port of Champlain, NY is participating in its Pilot Bond Centralization Program for Type 1 Importer continuous transaction bonds as of June 7, 2004.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an ABI administrative message (Adm: 04-1427) announcing that the Automated Commercial System (ACS) was to be brought down for approximately three hours, from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. EDT, on Tuesday, June 8, 2004 in order to accommodate emergency maintenance.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that as a result of Executive Order (EO) 13343, issued by President Bush on June 6, 2004, the Federal government will be closed on Friday, June 11, 2004.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site an updated list of non-vessel operating common carrier (NVOCC) participants in the Sea Automated Manifest System (AMS). CBP's list of NVOCC Sea AMS participants is updated as of May 28, 2004.

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice stating that at the request of the petitioners, it is postponing the preliminary countervailing (CV) duty determinations on bottle-grade polyethylene terephthalate resin from India and Thailand until no later than August 21, 2004 (from June 17, 2004).

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule, effective July 6, 2004, which amends 21 CFR Parts 1, 10, and 16 to provide procedures for the administrative detention of an article of food, if an officer or qualified employee of the FDA has credible evidence or information indicating that such article presents a threat of serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals.

The State Department's Washington File reports that on June 7, 2004, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned a lower court ruling that required the Department of Transportation (DOT) to conduct an environmental study on the impact that Mexican trucks would have on air quality if permitted to operate in the U.S. In response, DOT Secretary Mineta stated that the Supreme Court decision opens the way for DOT to continue working with Mexican authorities to move forward with long-haul bus and truck operations. (Washington File article dated 06/07/04, available at http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2004&m=June&x=20040607153418ASrelliM0.1072199&t=livefeeds/wf-latest.html.)

In the June 2, 2004 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 38, No. 23), CBP issued a notice revoking two classification rulings on industrial smokehouse apparatus. CBP states that it is also revoking any treatment it has previously accorded to substantially identical transactions that are contrary to its position in this notice.

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated administrative reviews of the following antidumping (AD) duty orders for the specified companies listed in the ITA notice:

The House Ways and Means Committee's Trade Subcommittee has issued an advisory stating that it will hold a hearing on June 17, 2004 on budget authorizations for fiscal year (FY) 2005 and FY 2006 for the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS') Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and on other Customs issues.