GOSHEN—A committee met for the first time on Dec. 1 to revive the county’s foreign trade zone board, which has been dormant since 2009. County Executive Steve Neuhaus directed Harry Porr, the county’s director of operations, to get the ball rolling.
The county invited staff member Elizabeth Whitman, from the Commerce Department’s Foreign Trade Zone Board, to bring the committee up to speed.
Porr said companies have been knocking on the county’s door and asking what a foreign trade zone can do for them. Now the county can respond in a positive way. “Today we have a newly formed board,” he said.
The 13-member committee included present and former legislators, county officials and attorneys, and other interested parties. Alan Seidman, former chairman of the county legislature, agreed to chair the committee. Porr said more may be added.
