[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 21, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64870-64871]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-22769]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-61-2016]


Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 79--Tampa, Florida, Notification of 
Proposed Production Activity, Givaudan Flavors Corporation (Flavor 
Compounds), Lakeland, Florida

    Givaudan Flavors Corporation (Givaudan) submitted a notification of 
proposed production activity to the FTZ Board for its facility in 
Lakeland, Florida within FTZ 79. The notification conforming to the 
requirements of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was 
received on September 12, 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

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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, 
other food preparations, food articles containing sugar, other 
cyclanes, cyclenes and cycloterpenes, other cyclic hydrocarbons, 
acyclic terpene alcohols, butanoic acids, pentanoic acids, their salts 
and esters, concentrated orange oil, concentrated lemon oil, citrus oil 
blends, aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions of essential oils, 
terpenic by-products of the deterpenation of essential oils, flavor 
preparations for food or drink without alcohol, flavor preparations for 
food or drink with alcohol, odoriferous substances other than food or 
drink or perfume bases with alcohol, odiferous substances other than 
food or drink or perfume bases without alcohol (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 October 31, 
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: September 15, 2016.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-22769 Filed 9-20-16; 8:45 am]
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