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FTZ Board Shows Zone Activity at Record Highs in 2013
August 29, 2014 by Brian Feito|Commerce Dept.

The value of merchandise received and exported from U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones rose for the fourth straight year to $835.8 billion and $79.5 billion, respectively, according to the recently released annual report of the FTZ Board. The report also says the proportion of shipments received at FTZs involving domestic-status merchandise rose from 58 to 65 percent, which is an increase in operations that combine U.S. and foreign inputs, said the report. The amount of merchandise received by warehouse and distribution operations shot up to $264 billion in 2013, and such operations now represent 32% of all FTZ activity, up from 25% in 2012, it said.

BIS Publishes Final Rule to Update EAR Legal Authority Following Obama Extension
August 28, 2014 by Brian Dabbs|Commerce Dept.

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a final rule to update the legal authority in the Export Administration Regulations to reflect President Barack Obama’s early August decision to allow Commerce to continue to regulate exports through the EAR (see 14080801). Obama on Aug. 7 extended a national emergency associated with the expiration of the Export Administration Act, which initially lapsed in 1994 and has since been renewed annually through executive action. The BIS final rule is effective Aug. 29.

BIS Makes Minor Technical Amendments to Recent Rules
August 15, 2014 by Brian Dabbs|Commerce Dept.

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).

Newark FTZ Applies for Expansion, Streamlined Subzone Procedures
August 15, 2014 by Brian Feito|Commerce Dept.

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.

BIS Publishes Final Rule to Amend National Defense Contract, Allocation Priorities
August 14, 2014 by Brian Dabbs|Commerce Dept.

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.