Business & Commerce

Foreign-Trade Zone 136 Expansion Application

🇺🇸United States··Notice·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

The Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board has received an application from the Canaveral Port Authority to expand Foreign-Trade Zone 136 to include Lake and Osceola Counties in Florida. This expansion aims to enhance the zone's service area and provide greater flexibility in designating new subzones under the alternative site framework (ASF). The application was formally docketed on April 7, 2026, and public comments are invited until June 8, 2026.

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Key Changes

  • Expansion of the FTZ service area to include Lake and Osceola Counties.
  • Request for authority to reorganize under the alternative site framework.
  • Public comment period established from April 7, 2026, to June 8, 2026.

Obligations

What this law requires

medium

Submit public comments on the FTZ 136 expansion application to ftz@trade.gov by June 8, 2026

Interested parties seeking to provide public comment
disclosure
medium

Address all comment submissions to the FTZ Board's Executive Secretary

Interested parties submitting public comments
operational
low

Submit rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the public comment period by June 23, 2026

Interested parties responding to other submitted comments
disclosure
high

Canaveral Port Authority must submit application for FTZ 136 service area expansion under the alternative site framework (ASF) pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 81a-81u and 15 CFR part 400

Canaveral Port Authority (grantee of FTZ 136)
licensing
medium

Make the FTZ 136 expansion application available for public inspection in the Online FTZ Information Section on www.trade.gov/ftz

FTZ Board
disclosure

Affected Parties

Canaveral Port AuthorityBusinesses in Lake and Osceola Counties

Tags

Foreign-Trade Zone,Expansion,Public Comment