Carbon Fiber FTZ Applicant Gives up Fight over PAN

As Agathon Associates REPORTED on February 2, 2021, Teijin Fibers and Hexcel Corp have been battling over FTZ since 2019.

On May 4, 2021, the Foreign-Trade Zone Board published in the Federal Register (86 FR 23672) Foreign-Trade Zone 38--Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Application for Production Authority, Teijin Carbon Fibers, Inc., Amendment of Application.

The amendment removes 12,000 tow polyacrylonitrile fiber (precursor) from the foreign-status materials/components that TCF could use under the requested FTZ authority.