400.2—Definitions.

(a) Act means the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of 1934, as amended.

(b) Board means the Foreign-Trade Zones Board, which consists of the Secretary of the Department of Commerce (chairman) and the Secretary of the Treasury, or their designated alternates.

(c) Customs Service means the United States Customs Service of the Department of the Treasury.

(d) Executive Secretary is the Executive Secretary of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

(e) Foreign-trade zone is a restricted-access site, in or adjacent to a Customs port of entry, operated pursuant to public utility principles under the sponsorship of a corporation granted authority by the Board and under supervision of the Customs Service.

(f) Grant of authority is a document issued by the Board which authorizes a zone grantee to establish, operate and maintain a zone project or a subzone, subject to limitations and conditions specified in this part and in 19 CFR part 146. The authority to establish a zone includes the authority to operate and the responsibility to maintain it.

(g) Manufacturing, as used in this part, means activity involving the substantial transformation of a foreign article resulting in a new and different article having a different name, character, and use.

(h) Port Director is normally the director of Customs for the Customs jurisdictional area in which the zone is located.

(i) Port of entry means a port of entry in the United States, as defined by part 101 of the regulations of the Customs Service ( 19 CFR part 101 ), or a user fee airport authorized under 19 U.S.C. 58b and listed in part 122 of the regulations of the Customs Service ( 19 CFR part 122 ).

(j) Private corporation means any corporation, other than a public corporation, which is organized for the purpose of establishing a zone project and which is chartered for this purpose under a law of the state in which the zone is located.

(k) Processing, when referring to zone activity, means any activity involving a change in condition of merchandise, other than manufacturing, which results in a change in the Customs classification of an article or in its eligibility for entry for consumption.

(l) Public corporation means a state, a political subdivision (including a municipality) or public agency thereof, or a corporate municipal instrumentality of one or more states.

(m) State includes any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

(n) Subzone means a special-purpose zone established as an adjunct to a zone project for a limited purpose.

(o) Zone means a foreign-trade zone established under the provisions of the Act and these regulations. Where used in this part, the term also includes subzones, unless the context indicates otherwise.

(p) Zone grantee is the corporate recipient of a grant of authority for a zone project. Where used in this part, the term “grantee” means “zone grantee” unless otherwise indicated.

(q) Zone operator is a corporation, partnership, or person that operates a zone or subzone under the terms of an agreement with the zone grantee or an intermediary entity, with the concurrence of the Port Director.

(r) Zone project means the zone plan, including all of the zone and subzone sites that the Board authorizes a single grantee to establish.

(s) Zone site means the physical location of a zone or subzone.

(t) Zone user is a party using a zone under agreement with the zone grantee or operator.

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400.2—Definitions.

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