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Foreign Trade Zone
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A Foreign Trade Zone is a site within the United States where foreign and domestic
merchandise is considered not to be within U.S. Customs territory, but in international
commerce. A Foreign Trade Zone offers significant benefits to the importing
community.
The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has approved direct electronic
reporting to the Census Bureau of statistical data on goods admitted into a
Foreign Trade Zone CBP has strict statistical reporting requirements regarding
all merchandise admitted into and exiting the FTZ:
FTZ Comparison Matrix
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Goods admitted into an FTZ from a foreign country
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CF 214-A (Admittance to FTZ) for each shipment
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Automated Foreign Trade Zone Reporting Program (AFTZRP)
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Domestic goods admitted to an FTZ
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Admittance of domestic merchandise is non-statistical,
no document required
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Goods exiting an FTZ for domestic consumption
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Goods exiting an FTZ for another zone, sub-zone or warehouse
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Movement between zones is non-statistical, no
document required.
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Domestic or foreign goods exiting an FTZ for export outside the USA
Part of: CHB QW,
Customs WMS QW
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