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It’s How Business in Indiana Gets Done.
What can a FTZ do for my business?
If your company does business internationally, the Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) program
can save it time, money and hassles. The FTZ program helps businesses improvetheir competitive position against foreign producers. Some of the many benefitsof the FTZ program include duty deferrals, inverted customs duty savings, reduced
insurance costs and overall simplification of import/export procedures.

Is a FTZ Good for My Community?
Foreign-Trade Zones allow businesses to operate inside the U.S. with many of the same advantages theywould have received by operating their business overseas. Not only do FTZs benefit the businesses theyserve, they also benefit the communities they’re located in by keeping the jobs, capital and infrastructure in
the communities rather than shipping them overseas.

Why Choose Central Indiana for My Business?
Central Indiana is a great place to do business internationally. It is centrally located in the U.S. with a superior transportation
infrastructure, allowing quick importing and exporting of goods throughout the world.
Not only is it continually ranked as a great and affordable place to live, it is also home to a large available workforce that is
highly skilled and educated.
Add to that the low cost of doing business in Central Indiana and it shouldn’t be a surprise that the area is not only attracting top
U.S. companies but foreign companies as well. As a result, the state ranks first in the nation in attracting new jobs through foreign
direct investment.
Those are just a few of many reasons why Central Indiana and INzone are a great choice for businesses.

The INzone service area is inclose proximity to Indiana’s
three inland ports located on
Lake Michigan and the Ohio River.

The INzone service area has directaccess to five of Indiana’s railroads
with approximately 4,165 rail miles
stretching across the U.S.1

Indiana’s highways connect
the INzone service area to half of
the U.S. markets and 80 percent of thetotal U.S. population within a one-day drive.
Source: Indiana Economic Development Corporation
iedc.in.gov/indiana-info/industry-sectors

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Need More Convincing?
A Few Benefits of Utilizing a Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) at Your Facility:
1 Merchandise Processing Fees (MPF). Fees paid for each imported

shipment of merchandise. This fee is based on a percent (0.3464) of combined
value of the imported merchandise (does not include insurance, duty rates,
and freight charges). MPFs are a minimum of $27 and a maximum of $520
for shipments valued above $2,500. The Maximum MPF paid in an FTZ are$520 per entry per week, regardless of how many shipping containers areprocessed during the week!

2 Direct Delivery. Allows the import of materials or products directly to anFTZ without the shipment being held up for prior delivery approval by CBP.

3 Weekly Entry. Allows FTZs to consolidate the number of entries filed, which cansubstantially reduce brokerage costs.

4 Duty Deferral. Import taxes (duties) are deferred on inventory being admitted into an FTZ. The

duty will be paid when inventory is ready to enter into the U.S. commerce as a product. This deferral ofpaying import taxes can give a company a large cash flow advantage.

5 Duty Reduction. Lower your duty rate based on converting imported materials or products to afinished product while in an FTZ. This is very popular with sub-assembly and manufacturing operations.

6 Duty Elimination. Never pay any duties! How? If your products are stored in an FTZ and they areconverted to a product that has duty-free status or if the merchandise leaves the U.S.

7 Duty-Free Labor and Profit. Labor, profit and overhead from operations within an FTZ are notsubject to Customs duties.

8 Simplified Returns. International returns processed through an FTZ do not require a duty payment.
Why not eliminate the cost and headaches associated with Duty Drawback?

9 No Quotas. Products that have quota restriction within the U.S. may be held in an
FTZ without any restrictions until the quota is lifted.

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