DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 474]
55 FR 20617
May 18, 1990
Disapproval of Application of the Illinois International Port District
for Subzone Status at E.J. Brach & Sons Plant in Chicago, IL
TEXT: Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of
June 3, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the Foreign-Trade Zones
Board Regulations (15 CFR part 400), the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the
Board) adopts the following order:
Whereas, the Illinois International Port District, Grantee of Foreign-
Trade Zone 22, has made application (filed September 26, 1989, FTZ Docket
19-89, 54 FR 42317) to the Board for authority to establish a special-
purpose subzone at the confectionary manufacturing plant of E.J. Brach &
Sons, Inc. (subsidiary of Jacobs Suchard, Inc.) in Chicago, Illinois;
Whereas, notice of said application has been given and published, and
full opportunity has been afforded all interested parties to be heard;
Whereas, the proposal calls for the processing of significant amounts
of foreign ex-quota sugar under foreign-trade zone procedures;
Whereas, the Board has reviewed the proposal in the light of the
domestic sugar price support program administered by the U.S. Department
of Agriculture (USDA), taking into account the views and recommendation of
USDA in opposition because of the adverse consequences that approval of
the application would have on the sugar program;
Whereas, the Board has considered the economic implications for Brach
and other domestic candy producers, taking into account the negative
consequences approval would have on other producers unless they receive
similar approvals; and,
Whereas, the Board has determined that approval would not be in the
public interest because such action would result in adverse consequences
to the domestic sugar price support program and to other domestic candy
producers not operating under zone procedures;
Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
That the application filed September 26, 1989 (FTZ Docket 19-89) is
disapproved
Signed at Washington, DC, this 11th day of May, 1990.
Eric I. Garfinkel,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance, Chairman,
Committee of Alternates, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 90-11559 Filed 5-17-90; 8:45 am]
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