[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 195 (Friday, October 7, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 69782]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-24355]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-66-2016]


Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 44H--East Hanover, New Jersey; 
Notification of Proposed Production Activity; Givaudan Flavors 
Corporation (Flavor Products); East Hanover, New Jersey

    Givaudan Flavors Corporation (Givaudan) submitted a notification of 
proposed production activity to the FTZ Board for its facility in East 
Hanover, New Jersey within Subzone 44H. The notification conforming to 
the requirements of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) 
was received on September 20, 2016.
    The Givaudan facility is used for the production of flavor 
compounds. Givaudan's notification seeks to add additional finished 
products using the components previously authorized for the facility. 
Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), additional FTZ authority would be limited 
to the 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, for the foreign status components in 
the existing scope of authority, 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; other food preparations with dairy; confectionary 
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; aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions of essential 
oils; and, terpenic by-products of the deterpenation of essential oils 
(duty rate ranges from free to 70.4 cents/kg +8.50%). Customs duties 
also could possibly be deferred or reduced on foreign status production 
equipment.
    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 November 16, 
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 30, 2016.
Elizabeth Whiteman,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-24355 Filed 10-6-16; 8:45 am]
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