[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 176 (Monday, September 13, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 49442]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-23773]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 44-99]
Foreign-Trade Zone 44--Mt. Olive, NJ; Request for Manufacturing
Authority, Givaudan Roure Corporation, (Flavor and Fragrance Products),
Mt. Olive, NJ
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission,
Trenton, NJ, grantee of FTZ 44, pursuant to Sec. 400.28(a)(2) of the
Board's regulations (15 CFR part 400), requesting authority on behalf
of Givaudan Roure Corporation (Givaudan) to manufacture flavor and
fragrance products under FTZ procedures within FTZ 44. It was formally
filed on September 3, 1999.
The Givaudan facility (186,000 sq. ft.) is located at 300 Waterloo
Valley Road within FTZ 44 in Mt. Olive, New Jersey. The Givaudan
facility (186 employees) is used to produce a variety of flavors and
fragrances, which are used in soaps, detergents, perfumes, cosmetics,
toiletries and household products blended from numerous natural and
synthetic ingredients. Most of the finished products are categorized as
fragrance compounds (duty rate--zero). The products are blended from a
variety of natural and synthetic ingredients, a number of which are not
available in the U.S. Foreign-sourced materials will account for, on
average, 50 percent of the finished products' value, and include
compounds such as tropional, peach pure, fixambrene, verdantiol,
evernyl, hexenyl salicylate-cis-3, ethyl methyl butyrate, phenoxyethyl
isobutyrate, phenyl ethyl acetate, linalyl acetate synthetic FCC,
hexenyl acetate-CIS 3, jasnone cis, isoraldeine, ionone beta synthetic,
nethylionantheme gamma, isoraldeine pure, lilial, cyclamen aldehyde
extra, tricyclal, vernaldehyde, cyclal, lemarome, melonal, sandalore,
linalool synthetic, ethyl linalool, rhodinol, tetrahydro linalool, and
dimetol (duty rates on these items range from 3.7% to 12.2%). The
application indicates that the company may also import under FTZ
procedures a wide variety of other fragrance compounds, as well as
other materials related to packaging and distribution of fragrance
products.
Zone procedures would exempt Givaudan from Customs duty payments on
foreign materials used in production for export. On domestic shipments,
the company would be able to defer Customs duty payments on foreign
materials and choose the duty rate that applies to the finished
products (duty free) instead of the rates otherwise applicable to the
foreign materials (noted above). The company would also be exempt from
duty payments on foreign merchandise that becomes scrap/waste (1%). The
application indicates that the savings from zone procedures would help
improve the plant's international competitiveness.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ
staff has been appointed examiner to investigate the application and
report to the Board.
Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions
(original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive
Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is
November 12, 1999. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to November 29, 1999).
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at the following location: Office of
the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 3716, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC
20230.
Dated: September 3, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-23773 Filed 9-10-99; 8:45 am]
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