List of Grantees At Risk of Fines or Other Penalties Due to Non-Submission of Mandatory Annual Report

June 20, 2008

The Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Act of 1934 (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u) requires each FTZ grantee to submit annually a report to the FTZ Board on the zone's operations (19 U.S.C. 81p(b)), which is used to create the FTZ Board's Annual Report to Congress (19 U.S.C. 81p(c)).

In mid-May 2007, the FTZ Board staff mailed warning notices to all FTZ grantees whose fiscal-year 2006 annual reports (due January 31, 2007) had not yet been received. At the same time, the FTZ Board published on its web site the list of those zones. As a result, a number of grantees have provided their missing FY 2006 reports to the FTZ Board.

According to our records, the following FTZ grantees' FY 2006 annual reports are still outstanding. The FTZ Board can not approve any requests from those grantees until their FY 2006 reports are received. In addition, it is important to note that any grantee's continued failure to submit their annual report could constitute a willful violation of the FTZ Act. Such a violation could lead to fines (19 U.S.C. 81s) or, if repeated, to revocation of a FTZ's grant of authority (19 U.S.C. 81r).

Any grantee that has not yet submitted its FY 2006 report should do so as soon as possible. If a zone is inactive, the grantee is required to submit a brief letter to that effect which also describes the current status of the zone project and efforts being made to market and utilize the zone (click here for a sample letter). For more information, please contact Liz Whiteman of the FTZ Board staff at (202) 482-0473 or ftz@trade.gov.

Zone Number	Name of Zone
FTZ 48	Tucson, AZ
FTZ 95	Starr County, TX
FTZ 128	Whatcom, County, WA
FTZ 157	Casper, WY
FTZ 162	New Haven, CT
FTZ 180	Miami (Wynwood), FL
FTZ 184	Klamath Falls, OR
FTZ 187	Toole County, MT
FTZ 232	Kodiak Island, AK