Foreign Trade Zone

Nordica Warehouses is the Foreign Trade Zone for the state of South Dakota. 

Foreign-trade zones are treated, for the purposes of the tariff laws and Customs entry procedures, as being outside the Customs Territory of the United States. Under Foreign-trade zone procedures, foreign and domestic merchandise may be admitted into zones for operations such as storage, exhibition, assembly, manufacture and processing, without being subject to formal Customs entry procedures, the payment of Customs duties or the payment of federal excise taxes.

Nordica Warehouses is a US Customs and Border protection container examination station.

Activities Permitted in a Foreign-Trade Zone

Merchandise entering a trade zone may be:

• Assembled
• Tested
• Sampled
• Relabeled
• Repackaged
• Displayed
• Repaired
• Manipulated
• Mixed
• Cleaned
• Stored
• Manufactured
• Salvaged
• Destroyed
• Processed

To learn more about foreign-trade zones, visit Foreign-Trade Zone Resource Center.