The City of Bangor submitted an application to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to reorganize FTZ 58 under the Alternative Site Framework, and expand the zone to cover several counties in eastern Maine. Under the reorganization, the zone's service area would cover Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Waldo and Washington 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 Nov. 28.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Sept. 24:
The Lewiston Auburn Economic Growth Council and the City of Waterville each submitted applications to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to reorganize FTZ 263 and FTZ 186 under the Alternative Site Framework, respectively. The application to reorganize FTZ 263 would expand the zone to cover Androscoggin, Cumberland and Sagadahoc Counties, Maine. The application to reorganize FTZ 186 would expand it to cover Lincoln, Cumberland, Sagadahoc, Androscoggin, Kennebec, Waldo and Knox Counties, as well as part of Somerset County, Maine. The proposed reorganizations under the "Alternative Site Framework would streamline processes for the designation of new FTZ subzones and usage driven sites within each zone's service area by allowing companies to request zone status through the relatively simple "minor boundary modification" process. Comments on each application are due by Nov. 17.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Sept. 18-22:
The Bureau of Industry and Security denied export privileges for Ming Suan Zhang through 2023, following Zhang’s conviction of violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. A New York U.S. District Court sentenced Zhang to a 57-month prison term in 2013 for “knowingly, intentionally and willfully” trying to export one or more spools of Toray type M60JB-3000-50B carbon fiber to China from the U.S. Those products are controlled by the Commerce Department under the Export Administration Regulations. Zhang is serving time at the Moshannon Valley correction institution in Philipsburg, Pa.
An Italian company agreed to pay $100,000 to the Bureau of Industry and Security after BIS discovered the company knowingly exported U.S.-origin network monitoring equipment to the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment without authorization. Area S.p.A. sold a Central Monitoring System to the telecommunications company in February 2011, BIS said in a Sept. 17 statement.
The Commerce Department is amending the Export Administration Regulations to add 28 entries to the Entity List. The destinations for the entries include Afghanistan, Armenia, Australia, China, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Pakistan, Singapore, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. Two of the entries are listed under multiple countries. Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security restricts, and in most cases denies, licenses for exports, reexports and transfer for transactions involved Entity List entries. The following 28 entries are added:
The Bureau of Industry and Security processed its sanctions measures put into force on Sept. 12, and the package will hit the Federal Register on Sept. 17. The BIS measures landed 10 Russian entries on the Entity List (see 14091503).
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Sept. 10:
The National Marine Fisheries Service issued a final rule listing 22 species of coral in the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific as threatened. Newly listed species include boulder star, elkhorn, lobed star, mountainous star, pillar, rough cactus, and staghorn corals. The listings take effect Oct. 10.