U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted Amendment 5 (dated April 2007) to the Customs Automated Manifest Interface Requirements (CAMIR)-Intermodal. According to CBP, the changes in Amendment 5 are as follows:

On March 13, 2007, the Senate amended and passed S. 4, the "Improving America's Security by Implementing Unfinished Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007," by a vote of 60-38.

The Wireless Bureau has completed a review of winners in the 2006 Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) auction, granting all but one of the 1,087 licenses won in the auction, it said. The exception was Space Data in Alaska, subject to a Sept. 29 deadline for filing a certification to qualify for a Tribal Land Bidding Credit.

The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) passed a series of international air-traffic flight tests proving that EGNOS-equipped airplanes will make approaches and landings that meet the safety standards governing international air traffic, said the European Space Agency (ESA). EGNOS is expected to be certified in 2008 for life & death uses such as air traffic control, the ESA said. EGNOS is the first stage to the precursor of the troubled Galileo system, it said.

Harman International’s proposed $8 billion sale to Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts & Co. and Goldman Sachs (GS) Capital Partners will take the company private and give it a solid base, Exec. Chmn. Sidney Harman told analysts in a quarterly earnings call rescheduled for Thurs. to discuss the sale.

In January 2007, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued an electronic notice which announced the phased enforcement of mandatory Automated Commercial Environment electronic manifest: Truck (e-Manifest: Truck) for advance cargo information purposes at all land border ports in Washington and Arizona as well as the ports of Pembina, Neche, Walhalla, Maida, Hannah, Sarles and Hansboro, North Dakota.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an ABI message announcing that it has created two new product codes for rice protein products.

AT&T won’t pursue a stake in Telecom Italia after a Mon. exit from talks, it said in a statement. European media cited “concern” among Italian politicians over chance the carrier would land in a foreign company’s hands. AT&T’s prospective partner, Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim, still is trying to acquire a stake in Olimpia S.p.A., which in turn controls 18% of Telecom Italia, and for which media reports said AT&T and Slim were going to pay about $2.7 billion.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice announcing that the fourth group of land border ports to become mandatory for the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) electronic manifest: Truck (e-Manifest: Truck¹) for advance cargo information purposes will be those in Vermont and New Hampshire as well as the remaining land border ports in North Dakota - St. John, Fortuna, Ambrose, Carbury, Noonan, Dunseith, Sherwood, Antler, Northgate, Westhope, and Portal, effective July 12, 2007.

In February 2007, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) posted to its Web site a notice which announced the phased enforcement of mandatory Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) electronic manifest: Truck (e-Manifest: Truck) for advance cargo information purposes at all land border ports in California, New Mexico, and Texas beginning April 19, 2007.