Foreign Trade Zone
The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County is the local grantee for the Foreign-Trade Zone #78, which was established in 1983.
Foreign trade zones assist companies in delaying, reducing, or eliminating the payment of U.S. Customs duty since no duty is paid on merchandise brought into the zone. Merchandise in a foreign trade zone exported outside the U.S. or transferred to another foreign trade zone incurs no customs duty. Merchandise may also be assembled, consolidated, repackaged, or otherwise manipulated while in this zone to reduce duty payments.
The Metropolitan Government's Foreign-Trade Zone allows companies to designate a facility outside of the general-purpose zone site as a subzone. This designation allows companies to take advantage of benefits while using their own facilities.
For more information about these programs contact [email protected].
Team
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Jamari Brown
Senior Director, Economic and Community Development