The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Aug. 18:
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security issued a final rule to make technical corrections to two recent BIS revisions to the Export Administration Regulations. Effective Aug. 18, the final rule makes minor amendments to the BIS May 13 rule that transfers export controls on spacecraft, including satellites, from U.S. Munitions List Category XV (Spacecraft and Related Articles) to the Commerce Control List (see 14051224). The BIS final rule also makes minor amendments to a June 5 rule that made technical corrections to a number of previous rules (see 14060425).
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey submitted an application to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to reorganize FTZ 49 under the Alternative Site Framework, and expand the zone to cover the entire area in Northern New Jersey that lies within its port district. Under the reorganization, the zone's service area would cover all of Hudson County, as well as parts of Bergen, Essex, Passaic, Union, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris and Somerset Counties, New Jersey. The proposed reorganization under the Alternative Site Framework would streamline processes for the designation of new FTZ subzones and usage driven sites within that service area by allowing companies to request zone status through the relatively simple "minor boundary modification" process. Comments on the application are due by Oct. 17.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Aug. 15:
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) revised its rules related to national defense priorities given to government procurement contracts, private contract approvals and resource allocations to industry. The final rule, effective Sept. 12, makes no changes to the most recent BIS proposal to this final rule because industry provided no comments, said BIS.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Aug. 14:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Aug. 13:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Aug. 12:
The Town of Limon has submitted an application to establish the third foreign-trade zone in the Denver area, according to a notice issued by the FTZ Board. The proposed zone would cover Adams, Arapahoe and Morgan Counties, Colorado, as well as portions of Elbert, Lincoln and Washington Counties. It would be established under the Alternative Site Framework, which streamlines processes for designation of new FTZ subzones and usage-driven sites within the service area by allowing companies to request zone status through the relatively simple "minor boundary modification" process. Comments are due Oct. 14.
The Commerce Department is changing the dates for its trade promotion mission to Peru in November for exporters of renewable energy and energy efficiency goods and services. The trip is now scheduled for Nov. 4-5, and will be led by an "executive" Commerce Department official, it said. Applications are due Sept. 15, according to the original announcement (see 14051616).