Terms Used In 15 CFR Part 200 - Policies, Services, Procedures, and Fees

• Act: means the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as amended (48 Stat. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Activation: means approval by the grantee and port director for operations and for the admission and handling of merchandise in zone status. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Admit: means to bring merchandise into a zone with zone status. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Alteration: means a change in the boundaries of an activated zone or subzone; activation of a separate site of an already-activated zone or subzone with the same operator at the same port; or the relocation of an already-activated site with the same operator. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deactivation: means voluntary discontinuation of the activation of an entire zone or subzone by the grantee or operator. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Fungible merchandise: means merchandise which for commercial purposes is identical and interchangeable in all situations. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Merchandise: includes goods, wares and chattels of every description, except prohibited merchandise. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Operator: is a corporation, partnership, or person that operates a zone or subzone under the terms of an agreement with the zone grantee. See 19 CFR 146.1
• port director: means the director of that port of entry. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Reactivation: means a resumption of the activated status of an entire area that was previously deactivated without any change in the operator or the area boundaries. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transfer: means to take merchandise with zone status from a zone for consumption, transportation, exportation, warehousing, cartage or lighterage, vessel supplies and equipment, admission to another zone, and like purposes. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Unique identifier: means the numbers, letters, or combination of numbers and letters that identify merchandise admitted to a zone with zone status. See 19 CFR 146.1
• User: means a person or firm using a zone or subzone for storage, handling, or processing of merchandise. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Zone lot: means a collection of merchandise maintained under an inventory control method based on specific identification of merchandise admitted to a zone by lot. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Zone site: means the physical location of a zone or subzone. See 19 CFR 146.1
• Zone status: means the status of merchandise admitted to a zone, i. See 19 CFR 146.1