DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket No. 45-85]
51 FR 774
January 8, 1986
Foreign-Trade Zone 22 -- Chicago, IL; Application for Subzones; Power
Packaging, Inc. (Sugar Blending/Food Processing)
TEXT: An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Chicago Regional Port District, grantee of Foreign-Trade
Zones 22, requesting special-purpose subzone status for three food
processing plants of Power Packaging, Inc., in the Chicago area. It was
submitted pursuant to the provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as
amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR Part
400). It was formally filed on December 20, 1985.
Power Packaging is a contract food processor with annual sales
approaching one billion dollars. The company is headquartered in West
Chicago, and has 9 plants in the United States and one in Canada. Its
primary business is blending, packaging and distributing food and beverage
products for a variety of customers, including major brands. The products
include cake and flour mixes, breakfast cereals, pudding mixes, soup mixes,
sirups, soft drinks, juice and drink mixes, tea mixes, and other edible
preparations.
The proposed subzones would involve the company's three Chicago-area
plants, all of which are within 30 miles of Chicago: a 4.5-acre facility
at 1815 Arthur Drive, West Chicago, Du Page County; a 4.2-acre facility at
425 South 37th Avenue, St. Charles, Kane County; and, a 4.1-acre facility
at 200 East Fullerton, Carol Stream, Du Page County. The three plants
employ 150 persons. In its blending activities the company uses about 40
percent foreign ingredients, primarily sugar.
Zone procedures would exempt Power Packaging from duty payment and
quota requirements on the foreign material used in its exports. On its
domestic sales, the company would be able to take advantage of the same
duty rates and quota treatment (sugar) applicable to imported finished
food products. The use of world-price, ex-quota sugar will help Power
Packaging's U.S. plants compete with imports of sugar-containing food
products. The Department of Agriculture is being consulted regarding the
implications of the proposal on the sugar quota program.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, an examiners committee has
been appointed to investigate the application and report to the Board. The
committee consists of: Dennis Puccinelli (Chairman), Foreign-Trade Zones
Staff, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 20230; Richard Roster,
District Director, U.S. Customs Service, North Central Region, 610 S. Canal
St., Chicago, IL 60607; and Lt. Colonel Frank R. Finch, District Engineer,
U.S. Army Engineer District Chicago, 219 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, IL 60604.
Comments concerning the proposed subzone are invited in writing from
interested parties. They should be addressed to the Board's Executive
Secretary at the address below and postmarked on or before February 14,
1986.
A copy of the application is available for public inspection:
U.S. Dept. of Commerce District Office,
1406 Mid Continental Plaza Bldg.,
55 East Monroe St.,
Chicago, IL 60603
Office of the Executive Secretary,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 1529,
14th and Pennsylvania NW.,
Washington, DC. 20230.
Dated: December 31, 1985. John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 86-379 Filed 1-7-86; 8:45 am]
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