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1986–PRESENT · THE FEDERAL TRADE INSTRUMENTS, BY NUMBER
The trade machinery serving this county exists, it has numbers, and none of it sits in Granger. Printed in that order. The foreign-trade zone. The zone serving St. Joseph County is Foreign-Trade Zone No. 125, South Bend, Indiana, granted to the St. Joseph County Airport Authority and approved by the Foreign-Trade Zones Board on 11 March 1986 (Board Order 326, 51 FR 10564, 27 March 1986). As reorganised under the Board’s alternative site framework (application filed 29 April 2010), its service area is St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall, LaPorte and Starke counties — Granger, inside St. Joseph County, is inside Zone 125’s service area, which is the single sentence of this section in which the CDP holds any trade machinery at all: eligibility, not a site. The zone’s general-purpose sites on the Board’s record are in South Bend (Site 1, seven acres at 2809 North Foundation Drive in the Airport Industrial Park; Site 2, twenty-one acres at 1507 South Olive Street), and its production-authority notices in the Federal Register name users in Elkhart and Goshen — REV Recreation Group / Midwest Automotive Designs (Elkhart, 2022) and LionsHead Specialty Tire & Wheel (Goshen, 2016) among them. No FTZ site, subzone or usage-driven site in Granger or in Clay or Harris township appears in the Board’s record reached. The airport’s customs standing. South Bend International Airport (SBN/KSBN) is South Bend’s, owned by the same St. Joseph County Airport Authority that holds Zone 125. Its customs standing is real and recent: renamed from South Bend Regional to South Bend International on 23 April 2014 with a federal inspection facility in the project; the International General Aviation Facility opened in June 2017 and cleared nearly sixty international aircraft in its first partial year; the Federal Inspection Station opened on 16 July 2019, the day a chartered Boeing 747 arrived from Manchester, England, and CBP announced the airport as Indiana’s first Global Entry Enrollment Center the same day. In CBP’s own systems the airport’s associated port of entry is listed as “South Bend International Airport, South Bend, Indiana – 3986,” and 19 CFR 122.22 lists South Bend International Airport among the designated international airports for private-aircraft arrivals. Granger has no airport; the banked airports material is another leg’s, and the customs airport this county has is printed here as the neighbouring city’s, because it is. Somebody else’s port, named as somebody else’s. For cargo customs purposes Zone 125’s CBP port of entry is Chicago, Illinois — the zone list prints it in so many words — and the nearest water ports are likewise other places’: Michigan City and Burns Harbor, Indiana (the latter holding its own Zone 152 under the Ports of Indiana), on Lake Michigan. The honest summary of the machinery row: a Granger exporter works through Zone 125’s South Bend grantee, clears air cargo and passengers through South Bend’s federal inspection station, and enters ocean freight under Chicago’s port — three instruments, three owners, none of them this ground’s.
Sources: Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Federal Register, 7 May 2010 (Docket 29-2010: Zone 125’s approval date and Board Order 326, its two South Bend sites, the proposed six-county service area) and 25 November 2022 (FTZ 125 production notification, REV Recreation Group, Elkhart); FTZ Board zone list as republished from official records, checked October 2026 (Zone 125 grantee; service area; CBP port of entry Chicago; Zone 152, Ports of Indiana); CBP, Biometrics Environments: Airports (South Bend International Airport, associated port of entry 3986); 19 CFR 122.22 (South Bend International Airport listing); South Bend International Airport record (the 2014 renaming, the 2017 GAF, the 16 July 2019 FIS opening and Global Entry announcement).