Handel i gospodarka · 22.11.2010

Adopted Adjustments to Alternative Site Framework

The Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board has adopted minor adjustments to its practice pertaining to the alternative site framework (ASF) originally adopted by the Board in December 2008 (74 FR 1170, 01/12/09; correction 74 FR 3987, 01/22/09) as an option for grantees to designate and manage their general-purpose FTZ sites. The adjustments stem from a staff proposal published in August 2010 (75 FR 46916, 8/4/2010). The adopted adjustments take into account comments received on the staff proposal. The comments received on the staff proposal and the FTZ Staff's analysis pertaining to the comments and the proposed adjustments are contained in a staff report available in the "Reading Room" section of the FTZ Board's Web site, which can be accessed via http:// www.trade.gov/ftz. The two adjustments proposed by the staff and adopted by the Board are summarized as follows: (1) Eliminate the site-specific allotment of a given grantee's 2,000-acre activation limit (including for FTZs already reorganized or with applications pending for reorganization under the ASF). Replace the site-specific allotment with a procedure--once the Online FTZ Information System (OFIS) currently under development is