[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 80 (Tuesday, April 26, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 24563]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-09706]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B-21-2016]
Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 46G--Cincinnati, Ohio; Notification of
Proposed Production Activity; Givaudan Flavors Corporation; (Flavor
Products); Cincinnati, Ohio
Givaudan Flavors Corporation (Givaudan) submitted a notification of
proposed production activity to the FTZ Board for its facility in
Cincinnati, Ohio within Subzone 46G. The notification conforming to the
requirements of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was
received on April 1, 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 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,
concentrated orange oil, concentrated lemon oil, flavor preparations
for food or drinks without alcohol, flavor preparations for food or
drinks with alcohol, perfume bases, and odiferous substances other than
food or drink with perfume bases (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 June 6, 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: April 20, 2016.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-09706 Filed 4-25-16; 8:45 am]
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