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Tampa Foreign Trade Zone #79
Providing Foreign Trade Zone services for the Tampa Bay Area

The Tampa Foreign Trade Zone was authorized by the Foreign Trade Zones Board in 1982. The Tampa zone program is now managed by the Tampa Foreign Trade Zone Board, Inc., a nonprofit corporation with members representing the City of Tampa, Hillsborough County, Tampa Port Authority, Hillsborough County Aviation Authority, and the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce.

A Foreign Trade Zone is defined as a secured area located within the United States but is considered technically outside of the Customs territory.

Foreign Trade Zones offer a number of advantages to the importer:

Imports may be placed in the zone pending entry through Customs, or be exported without the need to enter. Imports may be tested, sampled, measured, or even destroyed while in the zone.

Goods may be marked as to country of origin while in the zone before filing entry papers. Goods may simply be stored in a zone pending the payment of Customs duties.

Goods may be repaired or assembled while in the zone and then imported or exported to another country.

Goods may be manufactured in a zone prior to the filing of a Customs entry.

The tariff duties on goods coming out of a zone may be paid at the rate of the goods being removed or at the rate of the components, whichever is lower.

Material used, consumed, or destroyed in a zone is not liable to duties. Ownership of goods may be transferred while in the zone.

THE TAMPA ZONE HAS SEVERAL ZONE SITES:

THE BEN ATKINS FOREIGN TRADE ZONE SITE
at Tampa International Airport
(813) 875-9595

TAMPA BAY INTERNATIONAL TERMINALS
at the Port of Tampa
(813) 248-6168

*(These Two Sites Below are Public Warehouses Available
for Importers' Occasional or Regular Use)

THE TAMPA CONVENTION CENTER

THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER
at Adamo Dr. & 22nd ST.
(600,000 SQ. Warehouse)

Several Vacant Land Sites
Throughout the Area.

For Information on any of the Above Sites, Please Call:

THE TAMPA FOREIGN
TRADE ZONE BOARD, INC.
(813) 276-9406

ZONE NOTES:

Companies throughout the United States have taken advantage of the zone programs in their respective areas through the use of established general-purpose zones (public use) or in sub-zones granted at individual company locations.

Sub-zones have grown from less than five in 1980 to nearly 400 in 1998.

More than 3,500 firms now use FTZs and 350,000 people are employed at zone facilities.

The total value of merchandise moving through FTZs amounts to more than $160 billion annually.

49 states plus Puerto Rico have established Foreign Trade Zones.

THE TAMPA ZONE PROJECT

GRANTEE:

City of Tampa

OPERATORS:

Air General Inc.
Tampa Bay International Terminals Inc.

SUB-ZONES:

Group Technologies
Reilly Dairy & Food
 

TAMPA FOREIGN TRADE ZONE
PO BOX 420
TAMPA, FL 33601
(813) 276-9406 Fax 221-6095