[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 223 (Wednesday, November 19, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65244-65245]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-28804]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket No. 59-2003]


Foreign-Trade Zone 44--Trenton, New Jersey, Expansion of 
Manufacturing Authority and Removal of Restrictions, Subzones 44B, 44C 
and 44D, International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. (Flavor and Fragrance 
Products), Hazlet, Union Beach and Dayton, NJ

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the NJ Commerce & Economic Growth Commission, grantee of 
FTZ 44, requesting authority to expand the scope of manufacturing 
authority under zone procedures within Subzones 44B, 44C and 44D at the 
International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. (IFF), facilities, located in 
Hazlet, Union Beach and Dayton, New Jersey. It was formally filed on 
November 4, 2003.
    Subzones 44B, 44C and 44D were approved on 10/14/87 (FTZ Board 
Order 366). The FTZ Board approved the subzones subject to a 
time limit and reporting requirements. The Board extended the time 
limit for two additional time periods in 1992 and 1997. In April 2003, 
IFF was granted an 18-month temporary time extension to June 30, 2004, 
subject to the conditions of Board Order 366.
    The present application for expansion of the scope of manufacturing 
authority seeks authority to update and expand the scope of IFF's 
manufacturing under zone procedures to encompass a wider range of 
products and requests that the time limit and reporting requirements be 
removed. The applicant also seeks to reorganize FTZ designation for the 
three subzones into one subzone to be designated as Subzone 44B. The 
applicant further requests that the acreage at the Union Beach site 
(Subzone 44C) be reduced from the original 200 acres to 155 acres, with 
the total acreage for IFF's subzone decreasing to 327 acres.
    The application would expand the scope of authority to include a 
broader range of flavor and fragrance compounds, which are used by 
other manufacturers to impart flavor and fragrance to their finished 
products, including the following: fragrances and toiletries, soaps, 
detergents, household products, and beverages and food products. The 
application also requests that the scope of authority for sourcing of 
foreign components be extended to include the following items: vanilla 
beans, sunflower seed and other oils, petroleum oils from bituminous 
minerals, other than crude, hydrogen

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and hydrogen chloride, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, diphosphorus 
pentaoxide, ammonia, sodium hydroxide, artificial corundum, titanium 
oxides, chlorides, sulfides and sulfates, phosphinates, phosphonates 
and phosphates, carbonates, silicates, hydrogen peroxide, acyclic and 
cyclic hydrocarbons, halogenated derivatives of hydrocarbons, acyclic 
and cyclic alcohols, phenols, ethers, epoxides, aldehydes, ketones and 
quinones, saturated and unsaturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids, 
polycarboxylic and carboxylic acids, esters, amine-function compounds, 
oxygen-function amino-compounds, amino-alcohol-phenols, quaternary 
ammonium salts, carboxyimide-function compounds, nitrile-function 
compounds, organo-sulfur compounds, heterocyclic compounds, nucleic 
acids and their salts, provitamins and vitamins, glycosides, vegetable 
alkaloids, sugars, chemically pure (HTS 2940), other than sucrose, 
tanning extracts, essential oils, mixtures of odoriferous substances, 
beauty or make-up preparations, organic surface agents, artificial 
wares and prepared waxes, casein, albumins, peptones and their 
derivatives, enzymes, gum, wood or sulfate turpentine, rosin and resin 
acids, reaction initiators, industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids, 
polymers of ethylene, polymers of vinyl acetate, cellulose and its 
derivatives, natural polymers, fuel wood, and granules and powders of 
pig iron (2003 duty rate range: duty-free to 10%). The list represents 
an expanded scope of IFF's existing scope of sourcing authority.
    FTZ procedures would continue to exempt IFF from Customs duty 
payments on the foreign components used in production for export. On 
its domestic sales and exports to NAFTA countries, the company can 
choose the lower duty rate that applies to finished products (duty-free 
to 10%) for the foreign inputs noted above. In accordance with Section 
400.32(b)(1) of the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ Staff has 
been designated examiner to investigate the application.
    Public comment on the application is invited from interested 
parties. Submissions (original and three copies) shall be addressed to 
the Board's Executive Secretary at the following addresses:
    1. Submissions via Express/Package Delivery Services: Foreign-Trade 
Zones Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building-Suite 
4100W, 1099 14th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20005; or
    2. Submissions via U.S. Postal Service: Foreign-Trade Zones Board, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, FCB-4100W, 1401 Constitution Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is January 20, 2004. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to February 2, 
2004).
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Foreign-Trade Zone Board's Executive Secretary at 
address No. 1 listed above.

    Dated: November 4, 2003.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-28804 Filed 11-18-03; 8:45 am]
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