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A Deep Dive into FDA WEF for FTZs – 3rd Quarter 2016

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) Weekly Entry Filing (“WEF”) procedure for Foreign Trade Zones (“FTZs”) was instituted in the mid-1990s to provide a vehicle to “expedite entry of repetitive shipments of ‘low risk’ merchandise from FTZs in the United States.”

A Big Benefit with Many Possible Compliance Considerations – 3rd Quarter 2014

Most companies currently using or considering using the FTZ program are keenly aware of weekly entry and how it can improve import operations. Self-enacting federal legislation was passed in 2000 that significantly expanded the logistics and administrative benefits of FTZs to distributors…