Connecticut FTZ Applies for Expansion, Streamlined Subzone Procedures

The Economic and Industrial Development Commission of Windsor Locks submitted an application to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to reorganize FTZ 71 under the Alternative Site Framework, and expand the zone to cover all of Northern and Central Connecticut. Under the reorganization, the zone's service area would cover Hartford, Middlesex, Windham, Tolland and Litchfield Counties. The proposed reorganization under the Alternative Site Framework would streamline processes for the designation of new FTZ subzones and usage driven sites within that service area by allowing companies to request zone status through the relatively simple "minor boundary modification" process. Comments on the application are due by Dec. 22.