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"What foreign-trade zones all boil down to is the savings that companies can achieve,"

explains Randy Campbell, executive director of The National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones.

Launched by the federal government in the 1930s, the foreign trade zone program offers a host of benefits to companies operating in the United States, yet the top advantage continues to be money. FTZs are areas within the United States that the government considers outside the country--or at least outside U.S. Customs territory. The result is that merchandise may be imported int