[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 80 (Tuesday, April 26, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 24563]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-09706]


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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-21-2016]


Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 46G--Cincinnati, Ohio; Notification of 
Proposed Production Activity; Givaudan Flavors Corporation; (Flavor 
Products); Cincinnati, Ohio

    Givaudan Flavors Corporation (Givaudan) submitted a notification of 
proposed production activity to the FTZ Board for its facility in 
Cincinnati, Ohio within Subzone 46G. The notification conforming to the 
requirements of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was 
received on April 1, 2016.
    The Givaudan facility is used for the production of flavor 
compounds. Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ activity would be limited 
to the specific foreign-status materials and components and specific 
finished products described in the submitted notification (as described 
below) and subsequently authorized by the FTZ Board.
    Production under FTZ procedures could exempt Givaudan from customs 
duty payments on the foreign status components used in export 
production. On its domestic sales, Givaudan would be able to choose the 
duty rates during customs entry procedures that apply to cocoa food 
preparations, dairy food preparations, coffee food preparations, 
seasonings, sauces, alcoholic preparations for beverages, other food 
preparations with dairy, confectionary preparations without sugar, 
concentrated orange oil, concentrated lemon oil, flavor preparations 
for food or drinks without alcohol, flavor preparations for food or 
drinks with alcohol, perfume bases, and odiferous substances other than 
food or drink with perfume bases (duty rate ranges from free to 70.4c/
kg + 8.5%) for the foreign status inputs noted below. Customs duties 
also could possibly be deferred or reduced on foreign status production 
equipment.
    The materials sourced from abroad include: Benzaldehyde, vanillin, 
orange oil, concentrated orange oil, lemon oil, and concentrated lemon 
oil (duty rate ranges from 2.7% to 5.5%).
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
shall be addressed to the FTZ Board's Executive Secretary at the 
address below. The closing period for their receipt is June 6, 2016.
    A copy of the notification will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, 
Room 21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the 
FTZ Board's Web site, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
    For further information, contact Kathleen Boyce at 
[email protected] or (202) 482-1346.

    Dated: April 20, 2016.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-09706 Filed 4-25-16; 8:45 am]
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