Utah Firm Wants FTZ Boost for Hair Extension Kits
Published Date: 8/26/2026
Notice
Summary
Beauty Industry Group wants to start making hair extension kits at their Salt Lake City facility inside Foreign-Trade Zone 30. This means they can use certain imported materials with special trade benefits, saving money and speeding up production. The government got their request on July 27, 2026, and is reviewing it now.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
Duty rate ranges cited for listed items
The notice lists duty-rate ranges for the proposed finished products/components, including ranges from duty-free to 4.4% for certain education material kits and from duty-free to 18.3% for other listed items. These tariff ranges are shown in the notification for the specific finished products and foreign-status materials.
FTZ 30 production request for hair kits
Beauty Industry Group asked the Foreign-Trade Zones Board for permission to produce hair extension kits at a facility in Foreign-Trade Zone 30 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Board received the notification on July 27, 2026 and is reviewing the request (Federal Register notice published August 26, 2026).
Production limited to listed items
Any FTZ production activity would be limited to the specific foreign-status materials/components and the specific finished hair-extension products described in the notification. The Board will only authorize production for the listed items under 15 CFR 400.14(b).
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