[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 201 (Thursday, October 17, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55549-55550]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-22659]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-63-2019]


Foreign-Trade Zone 8--Toledo, Ohio; Application for Production 
Authority; Arbor Foods Inc. (Blended Syrup); Toledo, Ohio

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board by the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, grantee of FTZ 8, 
requesting production authority on behalf of Arbor Foods Inc. (Arbor), 
located in Toledo, Ohio. The application conforming to the requirements 
of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.23) was docketed on 
October 10, 2019.
    The Arbor facility (over 40 employees, with two full-time employees 
for sugar blends) is located within Site 1 of FTZ 8. The facility is 
used for production of blended sugar. Arbor currently has FTZ authority 
to produce dry-blended sugar for the U.S. market, with a 
``grandfathered'' quantitative limit of 37.9 million pounds of imported 
``ex-quota'' sugar. Arbor also has authority to produce blended syrup 
(aka wet-blended sugar) for export only--with no quantitative limit on 
use of ex-quota sugar for that export activity. Arbor's pending 
application seeks authorization to produce blended syrup for the U.S. 
market using up to the 37.9 million pounds of ex-quota sugar annually 
which, as noted above, is currently limited to production of dry-
blended sugar.
    On its domestic sales, production of blended syrup under FTZ 
procedures would allow Arbor to choose the duty rate during customs 
entry procedures that applies to blended syrup (duty rate: 6.0%) for 
the foreign-status input (granular sucrose, either cane or beet, duty 
rate: 35.74 20B5; per kg). Arbor estimates that 54% of the blended 
syrup is comprised of the foreign-status component. Arbor would be able 
to avoid duty on the foreign-status component which becomes scrap/
waste.

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Customs duties also could possibly be deferred or reduced on foreign-
status production equipment. The request indicates that the savings 
from FTZ procedures would help expand the plant's sugar blend 
operations and allow Arbor to ``reactivate'' its commercial activity.
    In accordance with the FTZ Board's regulations, Juanita Chen and 
Elizabeth Whiteman of the FTZ Staff are designated examiners to 
evaluate and analyze the facts and information presented in the 
application and case record and to report findings and recommendations 
to the FTZ Board.
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
shall be addressed to the FTZ Board's Executive Secretary and sent to 
[email protected]. The closing period for their receipt is December 16, 
2019. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the 
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period 
to December 31, 2019.
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
in the ``Reading Room'' section of the FTZ Board's website, which is 
accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
    For further information, contact Juanita Chen at 
[email protected] or 202-482-1378, or Elizabeth Whiteman at 
[email protected] or 202-482-0473.

    Dated: October 10, 2019.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-22659 Filed 10-16-19; 8:45 am]
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