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Foreign Trade Zone #249 provides significant financial savings for businesses

by FloridaWest News

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FloridaWest can bring the advantages of Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) directly to your company to lower importing costs, enhance inventory control and improve supply chain pace and flexibility.

  • Defer, reduce or eliminate duties
  • Reduce the number of normal customs entries
  • Eliminate duty on goods processed in and exported from the zone
  • Reduce or eliminate duty on capital equipment used in production
  • Avoid quota restrictions on merchandise admitted and held within zones
  • Allow imported materials and parts to be delivered directly to the zone site
  • Reduces federal excise taxes and some state inventory taxes when applicable
  • Allow duty-free transfer of goods among multiple zones

What is a Foreign Trade Zone?

Foreign-Trade Zones are secure areas under supervision of U.S. Customs and Border Protection that are considered outside the customs territory of the U.S. for the purposes of duty payment.

Click here to find out more about FTZ #249