Bergeron Foreign Trade Zone

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0"> <table width="472" border="0" cellspacing="0" height="595"> <tr> <td> <h3 align="center"><font color="#006666" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Welcome to the Bergeron Foreign Trade Zone</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i><font size="4"><br> </font></i></font><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4" color="#660000">THE ADVANTAGES OF A <br> FOREIGN TRADE ZONE:</font></h3> <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Ten Ways Your Company Can Profit From Using A Foreign Trade Zone:</b></font></p> <table width="450" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <tr> <td width="13"><img src="images/smgrbutt.gif" width="14" height="15" alt="Free Trade Zone"></td> <td width="459"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Imports may be admitted and held in a foreign-trade zone without paying U.S. Customs duties. </b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="13"><img src="images/smgrbutt.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="FTZ"></td> <td width="459"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Foreign Trade Zone users can pay the duty rate on component material or merchandise produced from component material, whichever is lower. </font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="13"><img src="images/smgrbutt.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="free trade zones"></td> <td width="459"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Custom duties are not paid on merchandise exported from a zone. </font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="13"><img src="images/smgrbutt.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="foriegn trade zones"></td> <td width="459"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Duties are reduced or eliminated on materials subject to defect, damage, obsolescence, waste, scrap or yield loss <br> (e.g. chemical waste). </font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="13"><img src="images/smgrbutt.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="ftz"></td> <td width="459"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Merchandise may be exported and returned to an FTZ without duty payment. </font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="13"><img src="images/smgrbutt.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="free trade zone"></td> <td width="459"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Spare parts may be stored, returned, or destroyed without duty payment. </font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="13"><img src="images/smgrbutt.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="South Florida Foreign Trade Zones"></td> <td width="459"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Delays in Customs clearances and duty drawback are reduced or eliminated.</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="13"><img src="images/smgrbutt.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="ftz"></td> <td width="459"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Duties are not owed on labor, overhead, or profit attributed to <br> FTZ production operations. </font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="13"><img src="images/smgrbutt.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="Free Trade Zones"></td> <td width="459"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Quality control inspections can identify sub-standard goods to be destroyed or returned without duty payment. </font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="13"><img src="images/smgrbutt.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="Foreign trade zones"></td> <td width="459"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">No duty is owed on in-bound, zone-to-zone transfer of <br> Foreign Trade Zone merchandise. </font></b> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <table width="472" border="0" cellspacing="0" height="717"> <tr> <td height="708"> <h3 align="center"> </h3> <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4" color="#660000">SPECIAL MONEY SAVING ADVANTAGES:</font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#006666" size="3">Merchandise processing fee:</font> Customs assesses a "Merchandise Processing Fee" (MPF) per entry which is calculated as 0.21% (.0021) of the full declared value of the merchandise, up to a maximum of $485. Foreign Trade Zones are only required to submit one entry per week for all shipments from the Zone, thus ensuring the maximum MPF of only $485 per week, reducing MPF costs to importers who currently file several entries per week, and pay more than $485 total per week for all entries. </b></font></p> <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" color="#006666">Zone-to-Zone Transfers:</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Imported merchandise which is admitted into a zone and then shipped to another U.S. Foreign-Trade Zone can be shipped duty-free to the receiving zone. As duty-free transfers, Zone-to-Zone shipments allow both the shipping Zone and the receiving Zone to reduce their duty exposure. Duties are eliminated completely on imported components, which are transshipped through several Zones and eventually re-exported. </font></b></p> <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" color="#006666">Duty Deferral:</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> While duties are eventually assessed on imported merchandise shipped to U.S. locations from Foreign Trade Zones, these duties are deferred while the merchandise remains in the Zone. The time that duty is paid is moved from the date of importation to the date of shipment from the Zone. The cost-of-money savings on duty deferral can be significant for large-volume distributors, or operations with long inventory turnover periods. </font></b></p> <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" color="#006666">Inverted tariffs:</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> When components are imported and admitted into a Foreign-Trade Zone, they can be manufactured into a new product for re-export or sale in the U.S. In these cases, the importer may elect to apply the finished product duty rate, or the component duty rate, whichever is lower. When the finished product rate is lower than the imported component rate, the importer can save the difference between the two rates. </font></b></p> <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" color="#006666">Inventory Taxes:</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> In states that assess taxes on business inventories, all imported merchandise, and even domestic merchandise when held for export, can be stored in a Foreign Trade Zone without having to pay business inventory taxes. </font></b></p> <p align="left"> </p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="472" border="0" cellspacing="0" height="584"> <tr> <td> <h3 align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i><font size="4"><br> </font></i></font><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4" color="#660000">IS THE ZONE RIGHT FOR YOUR OPERATIONS?:</font></h3> <blockquote> <p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><img src="images/smgrbutt.gif" width="15" height="15">If you are concerned about Zone operational issues or regulations, or you think Free Trade Zones are only suited to a particular industry, consider this: </b></font></p> </blockquote> <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Car manufacturing plants, oil refineries, computer manufacturers, and textile distributors are all utilizing Zones. So are companies with as few as 15 employees. </font></b></p> <blockquote> <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><img src="images/smgrbutt.gif" width="15" height="15">If you are already using another Customs tariff-reduction program, such as Duty Drawback, Temporary Importation Bond, or a Bonded Warehouse, you need to consider U.S. FTZs as a way to streamline your operations, cut down on paperwork, increase your flexibility, and save additional money, all at the same time. Many companies are discovering that Zones more efficiently meet their needs than other Custom programs. </font></b></p> </blockquote> <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" color="#006666">The bottom line advantages….</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br> Under U.S. Custom regulations, a Foreign-Trade Zone is an area considered to be in international commerce. This allows companies to move foreign or domestic materials into a Zone Duty-free. Duty is only paid when goods leave the Zone and enter domestic markets. </font></b></p> <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Companies that manufacture or assemble products here have the option of paying duty on either the components parts or the finished product, whichever is lower. Plus duties can be completely eliminated on products re-exported, all with the approval of U.S. Customs. </font></b></p> <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">If your business is a substantial importer of goods in South Florida, then you belong in the Bergeron Foreign-Trade Zone. </font></b></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <table width="444" border="0" cellspacing="0" height="82"> <tr> <td> <div align="center"> <h3 align="center"> </h3> <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4" color="#006666">THE</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4" color="#660000"> <img src="images/Bword.gif" width="111" height="19" alt="Bergeron Foreign Trade Zone"> <font color="#006666">LOCATION:</font></font></p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="445" border="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td height="48" colspan="2"> <div align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>As development in South Florida in recent years has led to congestion and escalating land prices in the Miami-Dade area,<br> the strategic location of the <img src="images/BPCwordsm2.gif" width="234" height="14" alt="Free Trade Zone"><br> has begun to be recognized. </b></font></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="171" height="409"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><br> The city of <br> Pembroke Pines, <br> in southwest Broward <br> County, provides the<br> ideal location for this industrial park. <br> Situated at the corner <br> of Sheridan Street <br> and S.W. 196th Avenue,<br> near US Highway 27,<br> the Park is just <br> three miles west <br> of InterState I-75 <br> and one mile east <br> of US Highway 27. </b></font></p> <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The proximity of <br> the Park to I-75 <br> provides convenient <br> access to Miami, <br> Fort Lauderdale, <br> West Palm Beach, <br> Naples, Ft. Myers, <br> their airports, seaports <br> and the growing <br> commercial and <br> residential centers in <br> those cities. </font></b></p> </td> <td width="270" height="409"><img src="images/mapdetail.jpg" width="250" height="436" alt="Foreign Trade Zone Location"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="284"> <div align="right"> <table width="438" border="0" cellspacing="0" height="214"> <tr> <td width="282"> <div align="left"><img src="images/mapinsert.gif" width="278" height="321" alt="Free Trade Zone Map Insert"></div> </td> <td width="152"> <div align="center"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.browardalliance.org" target="_blank"><img src="images/BA.gif" width="100" height="70" border="0" alt="Foriegn Trade Zones"></a> </font></p> <p><a href="http://www.ppine.com/growth/econdev/econdev.html"><img src="images/PPED.gif" width="125" height="65" border="0" alt="Bergeron FTZ"></a></p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="440" border="0" cellspacing="0" height="47"> <tr> <td> <div align="center"> <h3 align="center"> </h3> <p align="center"><br> <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="4" color="#660000"><b><font size="5" color="#006666">CONTACT</font></b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4" color="#006666"> " <img src="images/Bword.gif" width="111" height="19" alt="Foriegn Trade Zone"></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4" color="#660000"><font color="#006666">"</font></font></p> </div> <blockquote> <blockquote> <div align="left"> <h5><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Bergeron Properties And Investment Corporation<br> 6861 S.W. 196th. Avenue, Ste 116<br> Pembroke Pines. FL 33332 </font></h5> </div> <div align="left"> <h5><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Telephone: (954) 680-0223 <br> Fax: (954) 680-0128 </font></h5> </div> <div align="left"> <h5><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Email: <a href="mailto:bpic@bergeroninc.com">bpic@bergeroninc.com </a> </font></h5> </div> </blockquote> </blockquote> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p> </p> <table width="443" border="0" cellspacing="0" height="57"> <tr> <td> <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><i><font color="#000000">For more information about the</font><font color="660000"> <font color="#006666">Bergeron Properties and Investment Corporation</font><font color="#000000">, the </font><font color="#006666">Bergeron Park of Commerce</font><font color="#000000">, and to review the </font><font color="#006666">Bergeron Master Plan</font><font color="#000000">, please visit</font></font> <font color="#006666"><a href="http://www.bergeronland.com" target="_blank">Bergeronland.com</a></font></i></b></font></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p><br> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </body>