Foreign Trade Zones are secure areas under the supervision of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that are considered outside the customs territory of the United States at which special CBP procedures may be used. Foreign and domestic merchandise may be moved into zones for storage, exhibition, assembly, manufacturing, and processing without payment of duties, quota, and other import restrictions until the decision is made to enter the goods into the U.S. market.
Benefits
Duty deferral
Duty elimination on exports
Duty reduction (inverted tariff relief) and elimination on imports
Scrap / Waste savings
No time constraints on storage
Shorter transit time - Direct Delivery
Weekly entry
Arizona offers an approximately 75 to 80% reduction in real and personal property taxes for activated FTZs (certain restrictions apply)
Currently, nearly all of Pinal County is part of the expanded territory (Alternative Site Framework (ASF) for Foreign Trade Zone Number 75 administered by the City of Phoenix.