Foreign Trade Zone No. 79
Wholesale Import and ExportFlorida, United States2-10 Employees
Foreign-Trade Zone No. 79 is a nonprofit organization that administers and promotes a U.S. Foreign-Trade Zone program serving the Tampa region. It holds a grant of authority awarded by the U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board in 1982, with the City of Tampa as the grantee, and was formed in 1989 to manage and advance the project. Based in Tampa, Florida, the organization operates within the wholesale import and export sector. The zone framework comprises seven magnet sites and three usage-driven/subzone sites within the approved area, with activity concentrated in three magnet sites and no current activity in the subzone sites. Zone operators connected to the program include Air General, Inc. and Pearl Warehousing at Tampa International Airport, Ports America and Tampa Ship, LLC at Hookers Point, and operators handling jet fuel at separate locations such as Aircraft Service International Group, Kinder Morgan, and Motiva. The arrangement serves regionally based importers and exporters by facilitating trade through FTZ No. 79.