[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 243 (Thursday, December 17, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 81875-81876]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-27790]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-69-2020]


Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 46--Cincinnati, Ohio; Notification of 
Proposed Production Activity; MANE, Inc. (Flavor Preparations and 
Seasonings), Cincinnati and Lebanon, Ohio

    MANE, Inc. (MANE) submitted a notification of proposed production 
activity to the FTZ Board for its facilities in Cincinnati and Lebanon, 
Ohio. The notification conforming to the requirements of the 
regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received on December 
8, 2020.
    The MANE facilities are located within Subzone 46H. The facilities 
are used for the production of flavors and seasonings in capsule, 
liquid, or dry form. Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ activity would 
be limited to the specific foreign-status materials and components

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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 MANE from customs duty 
payments on the foreign-status components used in export production. On 
its domestic sales, for the foreign-status materials/components noted 
below, MANE would be able to choose the duty rates during customs entry 
procedures that apply to seasonings and flavor preparations (for food, 
drink, and other products) (duty free to 7.5%; 8.4[cent]/Kg + 1.9%; 
17[cent]/Kg + 1.9%; 30.5[cent]/Kg + 6.4%). MANE would be able to avoid 
duty on foreign-status components which become scrap/waste. Customs 
duties also could possibly be deferred or reduced on foreign-status 
production equipment.
    The components and materials sourced from abroad include: Coffee 
(not roasted; extract, essence or concentrate); vanilla, ground or 
crushed; turmeric; lac, gums or resins other than gum arabic; vegetable 
saps and extracts; sunflower or safflower oil (not crude); vegetable 
fats and oils and fractions thereof; beeswax and other insect waxes; 
fruit or vegetable juice (single source); sauces and preparations; 
silicon dioxide; unsaturated acyclic hydrocarbons and derivatives; 
cyclanes, cyclenes, and cycloterpenes other than cyclohexane; other 
cyclic hydrocarbons and derivatives; butan-1-ol (n-butyl alcohol); 
octanol and isomers thereof; acyclic terpene alcohols; other 
unsaturated monohydric alcohols; sorbitol; menthol; other cyclanic, 
cyclenic or cycloterpenic alcohols; monophenols; cyclanic, cyclenic or 
cycloterpenic ethers and derivatives; ether alcohols and derivatives; 
ether-phenols, ether-alcohol-phenols and derivatives; acetals and 
derivatives; acyclic aldehydes; vanillin; aldehyde alcohols, aldehyde 
ethers, and aldehyde phenols; acyclic ketones; cyclohexanone and 
methylcyclohexanones; ionones and methylionones; cyclanic, cyclenic or 
cycloterpenic ketones; ketone-phenols and ketones with other oxygen 
function; esters of formic acid; esters of acetic acid; propionic acid 
and derivatives; butanoic acids, pentanoic acids and derivatives; 
saturated acyclic monocarboxylic acids and derivatives; oleic, linoleic 
or linolenic acids and derivatives; unsaturated acyclic monocarboxylic 
acids and their derivatives; benzoic acid and derivatives; aromatic 
monocarboxylic acids and their derivatives; acyclic polycarboxylic 
acids and their derivatives; lactic acid and derivatives; amino-acids 
and derivatives; thiocarbamates and dithiocarbamates; organo-sulfur 
compounds; compounds containing an unfused furan ring; lactones and 
derivatives; heterocyclic compounds (oxygen) and derivatives; compounds 
containing an unfused pyridine ring; lactams; heterocyclic compounds 
(nitrogen) and derivatives; compounds containing an unfused thiazole 
ring; vitamin E and derivatives; glycosides and derivatives; coloring 
extract from vegetable or animal origin; acid dyes and preparations 
thereof; essential oils derived from orange, lemon, other citrus fruit, 
peppermint, other mint sources, or other botanical sources; resinoids; 
oleoresins; flavor preparations for food or drink; preparations of 
odoriferous substances; gelatin; peptones, other protein substances and 
derivatives; dextrins and other modified starch; other terpenic oils; 
pyroligneous acid; and, natural polymers (duty rate ranges from duty 
free to 7.7%; 0.2/liter to 0.64/liter; 0.7[cent]/Kg to 8.8[cent]/Kg; 
1.2[cent]/Kg + 1.5%; 1.7[cent]/Kg + 3.4%; 2.8[cent]/Kg + 3.8%; 
8.4[cent]/Kg + 1.9%; 17[cent]/Kg + 1.9%). The request indicates that 
certain materials/components are subject to duties under Section 301 of 
the Trade Act of 1974 (Section 301), depending on the country of 
origin. The applicable Section 301 decisions require subject 
merchandise to be admitted to FTZs in privileged foreign status (19 CFR 
146.41).
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
shall be addressed to the Board's Executive Secretary and sent to: 
[email protected]. The closing period for their receipt is January 26, 
2021.
    A copy of the notification will be available for public inspection 
in the ``Reading Room'' section of the Board's website, which is 
accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
    For further information, contact Juanita Chen at 
[email protected] or 202-482-1378.

    Dated: December 14, 2020.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-27790 Filed 12-16-20; 8:45 am]
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