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b) Bulk Concentrated Orange Juice
product subject to a quota, since the merchandise must be in its form as entered when a charge is made against the quota (19 CFR 132.11a(a) and 9.8(d)(2) FTZM).
(j) Petroleum Products - Petroleum products refined from crude oil in privileged foreign status may not be entered free of duty under HTS 9808.00.30 for sale to U.S. military departments when the certification required under that provision is not for the crude oil but rather for the petroleum product manufactured in the zone. (see Section 9.9(d) FTZM, 19 CFR 146, and T.D. 95-35).
(k) Alcohol/Gasohol - Any imported alcohol fuel that is denatured prior to entry into the United States must be transferred to a TTB distilled spirits plant pursuant to 26 U.S.C. §5232 to avoid paying the excise taxes on the spirits contained in the product. The alcohol fuel may not be entered directly for consumption from a zone without payment of these taxes. If determined to be classifiable as an "article" under 26 U.S.C. §5002(a)(14), it may be removed from the distilled spirits plant, subsequent to transfer from the zone, without payment of tax pursuant to 26 U.S.C. §5214(a)(11).
11.8 Time Limits on Grant - Some grants are subject to conditions limiting their legal effect to a specific period of time. If this time limit is not extended, or the conditions removed by the Board, no merchandise may be admitted to or processed in the zone after the time limit, and all foreign or zone-restricted status merchandise in the zone shall be transferred to another zone or to a bonded warehouse, or entered for consumption, exported, or otherwise removed from the zone and disposed of according to the law, as provided in Section 13.13 and Section 4.3 FTZM.
11.9 Space Limits on Grants - Grants can contain Board limits on physical size of activated areas. Certain grants require Board concurrence before the activated area may exceed a specific acreage. Zone grants may contain a stipulation that only a designated amount of the total acreage granted in the Board order may be activated.
11.10 Special Merchandise Provisions - The provisions covered by this section are not prohibitions or restrictions, but rather special provisions of law or regulation dealing with certain categories of merchandise not dealt with elsewhere in this manual.
(a) Semi-conductors - Semi-conductors may be transferred to the zone for temporary deposit in commingled standard, substandard, and defective units. While in the zone the standard, substandard, and defective units may be segregated. The standard units and some of the substandard units may be entered for consumption at the option of the importer. The defective and the remainder of the substandard units may be admitted to a zone in zone-restricted status and destroyed in the zone. The appraised value of the units entered for consumption does not include the cost of producing the defective and substandard units destroyed in the zone. If the destruction process does not result in complete destruction because a valuable waste containing precious metals remains, the Board may allow the transfer of the remaining zone-restricted status waste to the Customs territory for consumption where the precious metals are salvaged from the
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