DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket No. 33-90]
55 FR 34040
August 21, 1990
Foreign-Trade Zone 45 -- Portland, OR; Application for Subzone,
Continental Mills, Pendleton, OR
TEXT: An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Port of Portland, grantee of FTZ 45, requesting special-
purpose subzone status for the food products processing plant of Continental
Mills, Inc., located in Pendleton, Oregon. The application 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 August 3, 1990.
The proposed subzone site (10 acres) is located on Highway 30 and
Westgate Road within the Port of Umatilla's 73-acre Pendleton Industrial
Park in Pendleton. The subzone operating facility will consist of a 40,000
square-foot food processing plant, which produces baking mixes. Continental
Mills proposes to use subzone status for the blending of foreign skim dried
milk powder items with domestically sourced ingredients, including wheat
flour, shortening and sugar. The mixes made under zone procedures would be
exported. Subzone status would help Continental Mills compete in the premix
market in Japan and the Pacific Rim and to expand into the export market
for finished retail and food service items. A price differential on skim
milk powder that results in a significant cost advantage for foreign
competitors is noted.
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, DC 20230; Thomas Hardy,
District Director, U.S. Customs Service, Pacific Region, 511 NW. Broadway,
Federal Building, Portland, OR 97209; and, Lt. Colonel James A. Walter,
U.S. Army District Engineer, City-County Airport, Walla Walla, Washington
99362-9265.
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 September 24,
1990.
A copy of the application is available for public inspection at each of
the following locations:
U.S. Department of Commerce, District Office,
1220 S.W. Third Avenue, Room 618,
Portland, Oregon 97204
Office of the Executive Secretary,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 2835,
14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230
Dated: August 14, 1990.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 90-19594 Filed 8-20-90; 8:45 am]
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