U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones in September 2026: The FTZ News Review

FTZ News: The USA page on FTZ News, checked Oct. 6, is mostly Federal Register notices and two Customs messages. “Load more” opened two more screens. It did not open the whole file.

On Oct. 5 the site said the Massachusetts Port Authority withdrew its subzone request for Applied Materials, Inc. The board notice is dated Sept. 28, filed Oct. 1 at 8:45 a.m., document 2026-20260, 91 FR 62690, docket B-41-2026. Colin Agostisi signed it. Massport, grantee of Zone 27, had sought status for plants in Boylston, Gloucester, Newburyport and Rowley. The application was docketed April 15 and published April 20, at 91 FR 20973. Massport asked to drop it because of “outstanding issues that need to be addressed.” The case was closed without prejudice.

On Oct. 2 the site said Qorvo US, Inc. got a partial sign-off to make semiconductor wafers, modules and chips at its Greensboro plant, inside Subzone 230K. The board did not clear the whole request. Agostisi signed on Sept. 29. The notice was filed Oct. 1 at 8:45 a.m. and ran Oct. 2 as document 2026-20255, at 91 FR 62689, docket B-8-2026. The company filed Jan. 15.

On Sept. 30 the site said the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners put three FTZ 202 developer agreements for sites in Carson on the consent calendar of a revised special meeting at Banning’s Landing Community Center. The meeting started at 10 a.m. It replaced a regular session set for Sept. 24 and then canceled. Beatrice C. Hsu chairs the board. Yolanda M. De La Torre is vice president. Sheila M. Lewis, Edward R. Renwick and I. Lee Williams sit with them.

On Sept. 29 the site said that starting 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, a pile of Canadian goods cannot legally touch U.S. soil. Not a zone. Not a bonded shed. Not an in-bond move. Not a consumption entry. CBP put that in CSMS 70050970 at 1:34 p.m. Monday. The hooks are Presidential Proclamations 11061, 11062 and 11063, covering alcohol, motor-vehicle-related product and dairy. The White House said Canada kept discriminating against U.S. commerce.

On Sept. 28 the site said Hitachi Vantara Manufacturing’s plant in Norman, Okla., turned up in the Register. The board published a notice that the company wants production authority inside FTZ 106 for enterprise datacenter disk storage hardware. The filing landed Sept. 16. The notice is docket B-124-2026, document 2026-19777, 91 FR 61202. Comments run to Nov. 9. Juanita Chen is taking the mail at [email protected]. Finished goods listed include cooling fans, accelerator fans, front bezels, and hard-disk, flash and solid-state parts.

On Sept. 22 the site said the board approved a change of grantee for the Phillips 66 subzone at Borger, Texas. FR Doc. 2026-19380 ran Sept. 22 (91 FR 60082) as Board Order 2185. The City of Midland, grantee of Zone 165, asked that the grant for Subzone 165A be reissued to the City of Amarillo, grantee of Zone 252. Amarillo accepted if the board signed off. The application was docketed March 4. Christopher Abbott signed as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Negotiations.

On Sept. 18 the site said the board approved subzone status for ECI Gulf Coast Parts and Service, Inc. in New Iberia, La., under FTZ 124. The notice ran Sept. 15 as document 2026-18794. The Port of South Louisiana filed it, docket B-11-2026, opened Jan. 28. The site is 11.87 acres at 1309 Unifab Road. ECI did not seek production authority. The same day the site said Schuylkill County is on FTZ 147’s map and a plant in Pottsville can now ask for designation. The county itself is not a zone. Board Order 2186 is dated Sept. 4, signed by Abbott as Alternate Chairman, printed Sept. 15 (2026-18795). The grantee is the FTZ Corp of Southern Pennsylvania. The file is B-42-2025, docketed Sept. 4, 2025, noticed at 90 FR 43168 and corrected three days later.

On Sept. 17 the site said Commerce put Willacy County inside FTZ 12. The McAllen zone used to end at Hidalgo County. The write-up draws on a Sept. 16 Targeted News item, application B-39-2025 published Aug. 13, 2025, and the 1934 Act filings behind both. The same day the site said Customs flipped a switch in ACE. Electronic zone admissions that used to clear with a bad FIRMS code for direct delivery now come back marked 238. The note is CSMS 69902241, dated Sept. 14. Production got the code Sept. 17. Appendix P of the e214 error list now carries the line FIRMS CODE NOT APPROVED FOR DIRECT DELIVERY.

On Sept. 10 the site said Catalina Cylinders filed to conduct production under zone procedures, and tied the filing to aluminum and tariffs. On Sept. 9 it said the text of Executive Order 14411, out of the White House on June 3, makes no mention of zones. The same day it said President Donald Trump signed a law extending the African Growth and Opportunity Act through 2028. On Sept. 4 it said Elizabeth Whiteman’s name does not appear often in the headlines, noted a farewell message and no announcement, and asked about her future at the board. On Sept. 23 an item marked exclusive said the 81st General Assembly was in high-level week and that free zones stayed off the published calendar.

August items still on the page: an Aug. 26 ranking that said the U.S. leads, Europe follows and others lag; a short board notice on FTZ 138 in Ohio; a Panasonic battery filing under FTZ 126 in Nevada; an employee-owned mill in Akron turning to FTZ 23; FTZ 183 and semiconductor equipment; Corvus Energy filing again under FTZ 129, 12 days after pulling an earlier maritime-battery application; FTZ 252 handing Fermi 988 acres in the Texas Panhandle; a Yazaki subzone bid in Petoskey under FTZ 16, noticed Aug. 18; Coilcraft seeking production authority in northern Illinois under FTZ 176, noticed Aug. 17; an auto distributor expanding in Puerto Rico; Foxx dropping a San Diego smartphone plan under FTZ 153 on Aug. 11; and Viatris moving to expand drug production in Puerto Rico under FTZ 61.

The review covers the items listed on FTZ News’s USA page during September.