[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 176 (Monday, September 13, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 49442]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-23773]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 44-99]


Foreign-Trade Zone 44--Mt. Olive, NJ; Request for Manufacturing 
Authority, Givaudan Roure Corporation, (Flavor and Fragrance Products), 
Mt. Olive, NJ

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission, 
Trenton, NJ, grantee of FTZ 44, pursuant to Sec. 400.28(a)(2) of the 
Board's regulations (15 CFR part 400), requesting authority on behalf 
of Givaudan Roure Corporation (Givaudan) to manufacture flavor and 
fragrance products under FTZ procedures within FTZ 44. It was formally 
filed on September 3, 1999.
    The Givaudan facility (186,000 sq. ft.) is located at 300 Waterloo 
Valley Road within FTZ 44 in Mt. Olive, New Jersey. The Givaudan 
facility (186 employees) is used to produce a variety of flavors and 
fragrances, which are used in soaps, detergents, perfumes, cosmetics, 
toiletries and household products blended from numerous natural and 
synthetic ingredients. Most of the finished products are categorized as 
fragrance compounds (duty rate--zero). The products are blended from a 
variety of natural and synthetic ingredients, a number of which are not 
available in the U.S. Foreign-sourced materials will account for, on 
average, 50 percent of the finished products' value, and include 
compounds such as tropional, peach pure, fixambrene, verdantiol, 
evernyl, hexenyl salicylate-cis-3, ethyl methyl butyrate, phenoxyethyl 
isobutyrate, phenyl ethyl acetate, linalyl acetate synthetic FCC, 
hexenyl acetate-CIS 3, jasnone cis, isoraldeine, ionone beta synthetic, 
nethylionantheme gamma, isoraldeine pure, lilial, cyclamen aldehyde 
extra, tricyclal, vernaldehyde, cyclal, lemarome, melonal, sandalore, 
linalool synthetic, ethyl linalool, rhodinol, tetrahydro linalool, and 
dimetol (duty rates on these items range from 3.7% to 12.2%). The 
application indicates that the company may also import under FTZ 
procedures a wide variety of other fragrance compounds, as well as 
other materials related to packaging and distribution of fragrance 
products.
    Zone procedures would exempt Givaudan from Customs duty payments on 
foreign materials used in production for export. On domestic shipments, 
the company would be able to defer Customs duty payments on foreign 
materials and choose the duty rate that applies to the finished 
products (duty free) instead of the rates otherwise applicable to the 
foreign materials (noted above). The company would also be exempt from 
duty payments on foreign merchandise that becomes scrap/waste (1%). The 
application indicates that the savings from zone procedures would help 
improve the plant's international competitiveness.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ 
staff has been appointed examiner to investigate the application and 
report to the Board.
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
(original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive 
Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is 
November 12, 1999. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to November 29, 1999).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at the following location: Office of 
the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 3716, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20230.

    Dated: September 3, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-23773 Filed 9-10-99; 8:45 am]
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