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AUDIT ROW #325 · FTZ BOARD ORDER NO. 1720 (75 FR 68606) · THE ZONE RECORD READ THIS PASS
Walkerton lies inside a foreign-trade zone's service area — which is a true sentence that means less than it sounds, and this article prints both halves. Foreign-Trade Zone No. 125 is granted to the St. Joseph County Airport Authority at South Bend; its service area covers St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte, Marshall, and Starke counties — Walkerton's county among them — adjacent to the Chicago port of entry of U.S. Customs and Border Protection; the zone was reorganized under the Alternative Site Framework by FTZ Board Order No. The airport at the zone's heart, South Bend International, is a CBP user-fee airport where international operations run by prior permission (FAA data, effective January 22, 2026) — a customs standing that is South Bend's, stated as such. And the honest second half: service-area coverage is eligibility, not activity. No activated FTZ site in Walkerton appears in the record read, no Walkerton firm is shown using zone procedures, and the town's exporters ship as ordinary exporters. The zone is the region's machinery, available to this ground and unused on it in the record — printed at that exact strength, as the checklist's "machinery, honestly" item demands.
Principal sources: FTZ Board Order No. 1720, 75 FR 68606 (October 29, 2010) and the FTZ No.