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eBay posted an announcement on its Canadian Announcement Board informing users that U.S. Customs has begun more aggressively enforcing existing laws requiring "ultimate recipient identification" information on packages crossing U.S. borders (http://www2.ebay.com:80/aw/marketing-ca.shtml#2004-11-03101534). eBay summarized how this would impact the majority of eBay transactions and pointed to the Customs Web site for more information. http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/xp/cgov/import/cargo_summary/ult_consignee.xml