[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 146 (Tuesday, July 31, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41704-41705]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-14790]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 25-2007]


Foreign-Trade Zone 44 - Mount Olive, New Jersey, Application for 
Expansion of FTZ 44 and Expansion of Scope of Manufacturing Authority

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the New Jersey Commerce, Economic Growth & Tourism 
Commission, grantee of FTZ 44, requesting authority to expand FTZ 44 
and to expand the scope of manufacturing authority for Givaudan 
Fragrances Corporation (Givaudan) within FTZ 44, in the Mt. Olive, New 
Jersey area, adjacent to the Newark/New York CBP port of entry. The 
application was submitted pursuant to the provisions of the Foreign-
Trade Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of 
the Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was formally filed on July 20, 2007.
    FTZ 44 was approved on October 18, 1978 (Board Order No. 139, 43 FR 
50234, 10/27/78) and expanded on May 29, 2001 (Board Order 1168, 66 FR 
31611, 6/12/01). The zone project currently consists of the following 
sites: Site 1 (80 acres) - located within the 650-acre International 
Trade Center, 300 Waterloo Road in the Township of Mt. Olive (Morris 
County) (includes the Givaudan facility-228,000 sq. ft., of which 
42,007 sq. ft. are approved on a temporary basis until April 1, 2009 
(A(27f)-17-2007)); and, Site 2 (309 acres, 2 parcels) - within the 
Rockefeller Cranbury Industrial Park, located at Half Acre Road in 
Cranbury Township (Middlesex County).
    The applicant is requesting authority to clarify the existing 
boundaries of Site 1, expand Site 1 to include additional acreage, 
delete two acres from Site 2, and to include four additional sites in 
the Mt. Olive, New Jersey, area: Site 1: clarify existing FTZ 
boundaries (80.03 acres) and expand the site to include an additional 
0.5 acres in Mt. Olive which will include a 42,007 sq. ft. warehouse 
building on a permanent basis (new total acreage - 80.53 acres); Site 
2: delete two acres due to changed circumstances (new total acreage - 
307 acres); Proposed Site 3 (177 acres) - Central Crossings Business 
Park, located on Bordertown-Hedding Road, Township of Bordertown 
(Burlington County); Proposed Site 4 (57 acres) - Old York Office Park, 
located on Old York Road, Township of Bordertown (Burlington County); 
Proposed Site 5 (40 acres) - Rockefeller Group Foreign Trade Zone 
Meadowlands, located on County Road, Jersey City (Hudson County); and, 
Proposed Site 6 (275 acres) - Norfolk Southern Rail Yard, off of County 
Road in Jersey City and Secaucus (Hudson County).
    The applicant is also requesting an expansion of the scope of 
manufacturing authority for Givaudan located in Site 1. Givaudan's 
original manufacturing authority under zone procedures within FTZ 44 
was granted for the manufacture of flavors and fragrances, which are 
used in cosmetics, perfumes and household products. Givaudan is now 
requesting authority to utilize a broader range of 6-digit input 
classifications for finished product classification 3302.90 (fragrance 
compounds). Materials sourced from abroad account for approximately 
seventy-five percent of all materials used in production. These are as 
follows: cereal groats and pellets, natural gums and resins, fish-liver 
oils, olive oil, sunflower-seed oil and other oils, other fixed 
vegetable fats and oils including linseed oil, corn oil, and sesame 
oil, extracts and other essences of coffee, tea or mate, undenatured 
ethyl alcohol, residues of starch manufacture and similar residues, 
petroleum oils, carboxylic acids, carboxyimide-function compounds, 
nitrogen function compounds, dextrins and other modified starches, wood 
tar, industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids, polymers of propylene, and 
polyacetals. The duy rates for these inputs and their final products 
range from duty-free to ten percent.
    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 to choose the duty rate that applies to the finished 
products instead of the rates otherwise applicable to the foreign input 
materials. The application indicates that the savings from zone 
procedures would help improve the plant's international 
competitiveness. Approximately ten percent of production is exported.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ 
Staff has been designated examiner to investigate the application and 
report to the Board.
    Public comment on the application 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 October 1, 2007. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to October 15, 2007).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations: the 
Office of the New Jersey Commerce, Economic Growth & Tourism 
Commission, 20 West State Street, Trenton, NJ 08625-0820; and, the 
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

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    For further information, contact Kathleen Boyce at 202-482-1346 or 
[email protected].

    Dated: July 23, 2007.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E7-14790 Filed 7-30-07; 8:45 am]
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