The airport is in a foreign-trade zone.

Many Foreign-Trade Zone projects have been started with the philosophy of "establish it, and they will come".

Further, a Foreign-Trade Zone may be used to either expedite or avoid the drawback process.

Such zones are limited in scope and operation based on approval of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

There are over 230 Foreign-Trade Zone projects and nearly 400 Subzones in the United States.

The Foreign-Trade Zones Act was created to "expedite and encourage foreign commerce" in the United States.

Goods in a Foreign-Trade Zone are not considered imported to the United States until they leave the Zone.

It also offers the benefits of urban enterprise and foreign-trade zone status, providing tax breaks on goods moved through its doors, as part of the iPort Initiative.

Goods may be stored in a bonded warehouse or a Foreign-Trade Zone in the United States for up to five years without payment of duties.

Foreign-trade Zones are secure areas physically in the United States but legally outside the customs territory of the United States.

This "integrated" model, which replaced the previous "island" model, spurred growth in the U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones program.

There is also a Foreign-Trade Zone designation site at the McAllen-Miller International Airport to facilitate air cargo needs.

US Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZs) pose multiple benefits, other than duty deferred and inverted tariff, which companies can use to benefit their bottom line.

The ASF provides Foreign-Trade Zone Grantees with greater flexibility to meet specific requests for zone status by utilizing the minor boundary modification process.

One choice that Grantees are faced with is whether or not to expand a Foreign-Trade Zone or reorganize it using the Alternative Site Framework (ASF).

The U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones program was created by the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of 1934.

The McAllen Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) is located south of McAllen between McAllen and Reynosa.

Decision Subject to Review The decision is subject to review by an inter-agency Foreign-Trade Zones Board, headed by Commerce Secretary Robert A. Mosbacher.

McAllen is in Hidalgo County, which has the lowest household income in the country, but it's a border town, and a thriving foreign-trade zone has kept the unemployment rate below ten per cent.

A Foreign-Trade Zone Admission in Zone Restricted status is considered the legal equivalent to an exportation in the eyes of the U.S. Customs & Border Protection.

Im a member of the National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones, and have seeing what the FTZ program has done to level the playing field for US based manufacturers and exporters.

Foreign-Trade Zone Manufacturing Center: Information for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers Assistance in using FTZ procedures for small- and medium-sized manufacturers.

Many in the economic development community and real estate development field have heard much about how the Foreign-Trade Zone program attracts firms of all types to FTZ designated industrial parks and property.

But he also suggested that Mr. Perot would benefit more from the foreign-trade zone if the pact failed, when the actual benefit would be very small or nonexistent, managers of other foreign trade zones in Texas said today.

The ASF may be an appropriate option for certain Foreign-Trade Zone projects, but the decision of whether to adopt the new framework and what the configuration of the sites should be will require careful analysis and planning.

Special rules apply to foreign trade zones in these areas.

Sections of the airport have been a foreign trade zone since 1984.

The companies range from photography studios to a foreign trade zone.

They pointed out that foreign trade zones had been routinely granted for years.

In Oxford, residents will decide whether to establish a foreign trade zone.

After its warehouses filled up that year, the foreign trade zone had to turn away tenants.

One of the lures was the foreign trade zone.

Next door to the foreign trade zone, a $15 million produce market and storage center is under construction, financed by a large Mexican bank.

A foreign trade zone designation offers them a way to cut the tariffs on the parts they import.

The airport also has foreign trade zone status, meaning that goods coming through are not subject to Federal customs duties.

"Eventually, we'd like to get the entire one-million-square-foot facility designated as a foreign trade zone."

A foreign trade zone allows a manufacturer to pay less each year to the Treasury in customs duties for car parts.

Exports from foreign trade zones already exceed $17 billion a year, the Commerce Department reports.

Foreign trade zones were established by Congress in the 1930's to help American companies compete with overseas firms.

Both plants are labeled "foreign trade zones," a designation that provides favorable tariff treatment.

In a foreign trade zone, import fees and other forms of border protection are generally waived to reduce production costs.

Businesses in Foreign Trade Zones employ about 330,000 workers, the lawmakers wrote.

The airport is located in Foreign Trade Zone 221.

Washington helped even more by agreeing to locate one of the nation's largest foreign trade zones there, giving customs exemptions to companies around the airport.

Today Manaus is a foreign trade zone.

The Nissan tax break consisted of an expansion of the foreign trade zone that surrounded its original factory.

Designation as a foreign trade zone means that foreign-made parts can be shipped to an American factory duty-free.

"A lot of companies will get a competitive advantage in some way through the foreign trade zone," Mr. Lavernoich said.

They achieved Foreign Trade Zone status in 1990.

It is designated as Foreign Trade Zone 14.