FTZ’ine December 2021
December 1, 2021
FTZ’ine February 2022
February 1, 2022
2022 Off To An Electrifying Start
The Potomac River may be frozen on top right now, but there was still a lot of trade news flowing from Washington in the first month of the year.
The largest changes to the HTSUS in five years were just implemented by CBP last week. New entry summary filing rules went into effect to execute the Presidential Proclamation on steel and aluminum from the EU. Those rules are likely to reappear for metals from the UK and Japan soon.
FTZ applications now in process highlight the major investments being made across the United States in electric vehicles (EV) and the batteries that drive them. The difficulties those EV production applications are having navigating the halls of Commerce also highlight the policy challenges ahead for foreign-trade zones as Washington grapples with the potential impact to legacy assembly and parts workers in the transition to greener transportation alternatives.
The new ACE Portal is live and users need to set up a new account this month or risk having their access turned off.
The U.S. economy grew 1.7% in the fourth quarter of 2021, a 6.9% annual rate and its largest one-year jump since 1984. That positive also highlighted the depths of the pandemic, and will likely push the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates within the next 6-8 weeks. Thoughts of rising interest rates rattled stock markets which had a tough start to the year.
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Tech Tip: Zone IDs Are Changing For Real Now
Zone IDs and FTZ numbering has been the subject of several tech tips over the years. It’s funny how something that seems so simple can create so many technical challenges for FTZs and Customs and Border Protection.
You may be asking yourself if you must go back and update your procedures manual, documentation and all other things you have labeled something that looks like “FTZ #25A Site 2”. No, those FTZ Board assigned designations aren’t changing, but the way you send them in anything electronic to CBP is finally getting synchronized.
On April 24, 2021, CBP deployed the Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) ID Format Expansion. This necessitated an update in the both the ACE Entry Summary Create/Update and Duty Deferral Create/Update, but the format change was still optional in the e214. An operator could elect to use the old 7-digit format or the new 9-digit format on the admission. Now, CBP announced in CSMS #50858555 that the new format will be required in all new electronic admissions (e214s) filed starting on March 19, 2022.
Check with your FTZ software company and your broker if you use one to make sure they made the corresponding updates before the new deadline. And make sure that the 9-digit number you are submitting is properly formatted, with each of these three sections filled with leading zeroes to make up the full 9-digits:
- FTZ ID = 3 numeric
- Sub zone/GP ID = 3 alpha-numeric
- Site ID = 3 alpha-numeric
If you have questions about how to process an e214, or FTZ filings in general, please email us at Info@iscm.co.
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FTZ Staff Activity
- FTZ Board Staff processed a Minor Boundary Modification (S-1-2022) in FTZ 281B on behalf of Costex Corporation, in Miami, FL, on January 6, 2022
- FTZ Board Staff processed a Minor Boundary Modification (S-2-2022) in FTZ 99G on behalf of Delaware Freeport, LLC, in Newark, DE, on January 7, 2022
- FTZ Board Staff processed a Minor Boundary Modification (S-3-2022) in FTZ 93 on behalf of Tobacco Rag Processors, Inc., in Wilson, NC, on January 10, 2022
- FTZ Board Staff processed a Minor Boundary Modification (S-4-2022) in FTZ 84 on behalf of Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas (Houston) Inc., in Houston, TX, on January 10, 2022
- FTZ Board Staff processed a Minor Boundary Modification (S-5-2022) in FTZ 75J on behalf of Honeywell Aerospace, Inc., in Houston, TX, on January 10, 2022
- FTZ Board Staff processed a Termination (S-6-2022) in FTZ 176J on behalf of Metcut LLC, in Rochelle, IL, on January 11, 2022
- FTZ Board Staff processed a Minor Boundary Modification (S-7-2022) in FTZ 281 on behalf of Everwell Parts, Inc., in Miami, FL, on January 19, 2022
- FTZ Board Staff processed a Minor Boundary Modification (S-8-2022) in FTZ 125E on behalf of Thor Motor Coach, Inc., in Bristol, IN, on January 20, 2022
- FTZ Board Staff processed a Minor Boundary Modification (S-9-2022) in FTZ 72 on behalf of LifeScience Logistics, LLC, in Brownsburg, IN, on January 24, 2022
- FTZ Board Staff processed a Minor Boundary Modification (S-10-2022) in FTZ 89 on behalf of US Pharmatech, Inc., in Las Vegas, NV, on January 25, 2022
- FTZ Board Staff processed a Minor Boundary Modification (S-11-2022) in FTZ 32 on behalf of Eduardo E. Lozano & Co, Inc., in Miami, FL, on January 26, 2022
- FTZ Board Staff processed a Minor Boundary Modification (S-12-2022) in FTZ 32 on behalf of ILS Cargo, Corp. , in Doral, FL, on January 26, 2022
- FTZ Board Staff processed a Minor Boundary Modification (S-13-2022) in FTZ 272D on behalf of Sharp Corporation d/b/a Sharp Packaging Services, LLC, in Jacksonville, FL, on January 31, 2022
FTZ Board Activity
- BMW Manufacturing Company, LLC submitted a notification of proposed production activity for passenger motor vehicles within FTZ 38 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. MORE
- Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas Inc. received authorization of production activity for forklifts/work trucks and related subassemblies/kits within FTZ 84 in Houston, Texas. MORE
- Lilly del Caribe, Inc. received authorization of production activity for pharmaceutical products within FTZ 7 in Carolina, Puerto Rico. MORE
- Avant Organics LLC received authorization of production activity for specialty chemicals within FTZ 261 in Alexandria, Louisiana. MORE
- OFS Fitel, LLC submitted an application for production authority for optical fiber products within FTZ 26 in Carrolton, Georgia. MORE
- AbbVie Ltd. received authorization of production activity for pharmaceutical products within FTZ 7 in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico. MORE
