Foreign-Trade Zone
Our North Kansas City pharmaceutical facility is licensed as a Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ), so we can receive foreign merchandise in our facility without making U.S. customs entry (importation).
This means that MRIGlobal customers who need the versatility of storage and international distribution of their research materials without importation can use our FTZ, which is located in the same facility as our repository and biorepository.
This distinctive offering is appealing to customers across the industry and especially those small or virtual manufacturers who may not have access to their own space. This combination of offerings is exceptionally unique, providing clients the opportunity to have their needs met in a single, centralized facility.
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Benefits of the Foreign-Trade Zone
Avoid delays to clinical trials
Strained supply chains run the risk of products being held longer than necessary. Customers beginning clinical trials can avoid this headache by shipping drug substance (API) and/or drug products to us, which we will hold in our secure and climate-controlled FTZ while awaiting approval of their Investigational New Drug (IND) application by the FDA. After it is approved, that product will be ready for prompt importation and distribution.
Defer Duty Payments
Customers can control immediate financial impacts by choosing to pay the duty when foreign merchandise is admitted to the FTZ, or defer the duty until the material is imported into the U.S.
Avoid Duties
Materials can be brought into the U.S. and securely stored in the FTZ indefinitely until they’re needed. If the material is not needed in the U.S., but instead transferred to another country, it will not be subject to U.S. duties. By avoiding U.S. duties, customers utilizing the FTZ can maintain control of their material while reducing their costs.
accelerate testing timelines
MRIGlobal’s pharmaceutical analysis laboratories are within the FTZ, so the materials can be tested by our expert team without ever being imported into the U.S. Customers can accelerate the progress of their drug development timelines by making use of the ability for us to perform research on materials within the FTZ.
CGMP Compliance
The FTZ is located in the same secure, cGMP-validated facility as the MRIGlobal pharmaceutical repository, stability facility, and biospecimen repository.
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