What the Town Does Not Have — the Trade Zone, a Port, Sister Cities

2010–2026 · FTZ Order No. 1720, Federal Register, 8 Nov 2010; ITA/USTR data via STATS Indiana

Foreign-Trade Zone 125 (grantee: the St. Joseph County Airport Authority; Order No. 1720, Federal Register, 8 November 2010) covers Lakeville the way it covers the whole county: the town lies inside the zone's alternative-site-framework service area by county. That is the whole of Lakeville's FTZ fact. No FTZ site, subzone, or operator stands in Lakeville in the order or in any carrier reached; the zone's customs and airport functions are South Bend's. (NL-4's file corrects its own earlier FTZ framing on the same order; this section prints the order's own terms and no larger claim. The order's designated-acreage figures vary across the carriers that summarise it; the service-area fact, which is the one that touches Lakeville, is consistent in all of them.) A port: Lakeville has none — no navigable water, no rail intermodal terminal stands in the carriers — printed as not had. Sister cities: tested negative; no sister-city relationship for Lakeville, Indiana stands in any carrier reached.

The modern ledger, at the class the data supports: the South Bend–Mishawaka metro exported $989.6 million in 2024 (ITA/USTR figures via the state data service — the same metro figure the North Liberty file verified; the trade is the metro's, dominated by its cities' industries). Lakeville's own share is uncounted — no carrier at any strength separates it, and this section does not estimate it: Hoosier's foreign sales run through the Lakeville distribution centre, but the company's export value is not published, and a share built from an unpublished numerator over a metro denominator would be arithmetic theatre. The state frame carries a carrier variance, printed so it is not re-imported as two facts: the state exports figure was read as $68.6 billion's carriers against $68.8 billion carried in the North Liberty file — successive data vintages of the same series, both standing as read, neither used for any town-level claim.