FTZ foreign trade zones - this is some wild stuff

[chad]

according to some chatter i heard on dailypaul.com and RBN, a whole new group of these have been created lately. and they are unassigned to anyone.

people are speculating that they are going to be given to the chinese so that they can set up factories here, ship chinese citizens over, and operate like a little china in the united states, staying exempt from taxes, customs duties etc.

check it out:

http://ia.ita.doc.gov/ftzpage/letters/ftzlist-map.html

then i was looking, and one of them has a link to an actual FTZ website that is looking for "foreign customers."

http://www.ftz226.co.merced.ca.us/basics/index.html

at any rate, dailypaul was speculating that this is the hinese payback for all of the bond purchases. they are going to be allowed to create little chinese towns here in the united states for the purpose of manufacturing.

is anyone here a FTZ expert? if so, perhaps somebody could comment. i don't know much about it, but once i started clicking around, it seems legit.

[DMac]

Very interesting, thanks.

Some searching returned these pages with more info:

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=197634.0

http://www.channelingreality.com/CORE/trickle_down_is_out_trickle_in.htm

[osoab]

Some discussion took place last night on this.

http://gold-silver.us/forum/general-discussion/why-china-is-a-zero-threat-to-the-usa/

[Libertytree]

The U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones program was created by the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of 1934. The Foreign-Trade Zones Act was one of two key pieces of legislation passed in 1934 in an attempt to mitigate some of the destructive effects of the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs, which had been imposed in 1930.

More..... http://www.foreign-trade-zone.com/history.htm

[chad]

The U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones program was created by the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of 1934. The Foreign-Trade Zones Act was one of two key pieces of legislation passed in 1934 in an attempt to mitigate some of the destructive effects of the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs, which had been imposed in 1930.

More..... http://www.foreign-trade-zone.com/history.htm


yeah, i knew they were originally from 1934. i think it would be interesting to see if there's been a creation of more of them lately. you know any angle to do that liberty tree?

[Cobalt]

I looked up the ones here in Washington state from the thread last night and what I saw is they all appeared to be port of entries used for accepting imported goods and moving them on to their destination.

I have been too many of them working on construction projects and didn't see anything that would be seen as a place for Chinese to be setting up shops or home unless they are willing to live in shipping containers that are constantly on the move from one pile too another via huge forklifts.

If they were setting up house, I'm pretty confident that the longshoremen I met with would be dumping containers loaded with Chinese off the ends of the docks and saying "whoops"

[Libertytree]

The U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones program was created by the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of 1934. The Foreign-Trade Zones Act was one of two key pieces of legislation passed in 1934 in an attempt to mitigate some of the destructive effects of the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs, which had been imposed in 1930.

More..... http://www.foreign-trade-zone.com/history.htm


yeah, i knew they were originally from 1934. i think it would be interesting to see if there's been a creation of more of them lately. you know any angle to do that liberty tree?


I had been through the information at the ia.ita. gov site and when I went through the state by state list I perused some of the provided links and found that some of them had been charted since the 70's and found no way of tracking new charters vs older charters. I did notice a change in definitions though, in that initially FTZ's were to be set up in ports of entry but the new definitions are allowing for non port of entry charters.

As far as a chronological list of oldest to newest charters, maybe a FOI request would work?

[chad]

The U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones program was created by the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of 1934. The Foreign-Trade Zones Act was one of two key pieces of legislation passed in 1934 in an attempt to mitigate some of the destructive effects of the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs, which had been imposed in 1930.

More..... http://www.foreign-trade-zone.com/history.htm


yeah, i knew they were originally from 1934. i think it would be interesting to see if there's been a creation of more of them lately. you know any angle to do that liberty tree?


I had been through the information at the ia.ita. gov site and when I went through the state by state list I perused some of the provided links and found that some of them had been charted since the 70's and found no way of tracking new charters vs older charters. I did notice a change in definitions though, in that initially FTZ's were to be set up in ports of entry but the new definitions are allowing for non port of entry charters.

As far as a chronological list of oldest to newest charters, maybe a FOI request would work?


good idea, i am going to keep looking in to this...

[osoab]

http://www.discountgoldandsilvertrading.net/Radio_Show.htm

On the Wednesday show (yesterday) Bob Chapman goes into this 25:49 into the show.
Might give another area where to explore this more.