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FACA. 

Dated in Washington, DC, February 11, 

2011. 

Peter Minarik, 

Acting Chief, Regional Programs 

Coordination Unit. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[Docket 9–2011] 

Foreign-Trade Zone 29—Louisville, KY, 

Application for Expansion of 

Manufacturing Authority, Subzone 29F, 

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, 

Inc. (Automotive Electronic 

Components) 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the 

Board) by the Louisville and Jefferson 

County Riverport Authority (LJCRA), 

grantee of FTZ 29, on behalf of Hitachi 

Automotive Systems Americas, Inc. 

(HIAMS–AM) (formerly Hitachi 

Automotive Products (USA), Inc.), 

operator of Subzone 29F, HIAMS–AM 

plant, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, 

requesting authority to expand the 

scope of FTZ manufacturing authority. 

The application was submitted pursuant 

to the provisions of the Foreign-Trade 

Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a– 

81u), and section 400.28(a)(2) of the 

Board’s regulations (15 CFR part 400). It 

was formally filed on February 10, 2011. 

Subzone 29F was approved by the 

Board in 1990 with authority granted for 

the manufacture of automotive 

components at the HIAMS–AM plant 

located at 955 Warwick Road (Site 1) (50 

acres) in Harrodsburg, Kentucky (Board 

Order 497, 56 FR 674, 1–8–91). Activity 

at the facility (624 employees) includes 

machining, assembly, testing, 

warehousing, and distribution of 

various automotive components, 

including mass air sensors, throttle 

bodies and chambers, starter motors, 

motor/generator units, alternators, 

distributors, other static converters, 

inverter modules, rotors/stators, ignition 

coils, electronic sensors and modules, 

fuel injectors, emissions control 

equipment, valves, pumps, and 

electronic control units for engines and 

transmissions (capacity—up to 8.5 

million units annually). 

LJCRA previously submitted an 

application in 2010 on behalf of 

HIAMS–AM requesting authority to 

expand the subzone to include two new 

warehouse facilities (adding Site 2 and 

Site 3) and to expand its scope of FTZ 

manufacturing authority to add 720,000 

units to its authorized annual 

production capacity (proposed 

combined output: 9.22 million units per 

year) and to include the manufacture of 

high pressure, direct-injection fuel 

pumps as an additional finished 

product to be manufactured under FTZ 

procedures (Docket 38–2010; 75 FR 

29723, 5–27–2010). 

The applicant now requests that the 

scope of FTZ manufacturing authority 

be expanded to include additional 

production capacity (330,000 units per 

year) that will be added at the facility 

in 2011 (new combined output would 

be 9.55 million units per year). The 

expanded operations will involve 

similar finished products and utilization 

of both foreign-sourced and domestic 

materials and components under 

HIAMS–AM’s existing scope of FTZ 

authority. 

Components and materials sourced 

from abroad (representing about 80 

percent of the finished automotive 

components’ material value) include: 

adhesives, plastic fittings, plastic and 

rubber belts, fasteners, gaskets/seals/orings, metal fittings, labels, plastic 

wedging, springs, brackets, plates, 

filters, bearings, air pumps/compressors, 

valves, switches, electric motors, tubes/ 

pipes/profiles, aluminum plugs, 

transformers, crankshafts, camshafts, 

gears, pulleys, couplings, clutches, parts 

of electric motors, pinions, magnets, 

ignition parts, diodes, transistors, 

resistors, semiconductors, liquid crystal 

devices, electrical instruments, 

navigation apparatuses, capacitors, 

printed/integrated circuits, fuses, 

rheostats, connectors, terminals, 

piezoelectric crystals, regulators, lamps, 

wires, cables, cylinders, plungers, 

insulators, brushes, brackets, shafts, and 

measuring instruments (duty rate range: 

free—9.0%). 

Expanded FTZ procedures could 

continue to exempt HIAMS–AM from 

customs duty payments on the foreignorigin components used in production 

for export (about 30% of shipments). On 

its domestic shipments, the company 

would be able to elect the duty rate that 

applies to finished automotive 

components (free—6.7%) for the 

foreign-origin inputs noted above. 

Subzone status would further allow 

HIAMS–AM to realize logistical benefits 

through the use of weekly customs entry 

procedures. Customs duties also could 

possibly be deferred or reduced on 

foreign status production equipment. 

HIAMS–AM would also be exempt from 

duty payments on foreign inputs that 

become scrap during the production 

process. 

In accordance with the Board’s 

regulations, Pierre Duy of the FTZ Staff 

is designated examiner to evaluate and 

analyze the facts and information 

presented in the application and case 

record and to report findings and 

recommendations to the Board. 

Public comment is invited from 

interested parties. Submissions (original 

and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the 

Board’s Executive Secretary at the 

following address: Office of the 

Executive Secretary, Room 2111, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230–0002. The closing period for 

receipt of comments is April 18, 2011. 

Rebuttal comments in response to 

material submitted during the foregoing 

period may be submitted during the 

subsequent 15-day period to May 2, 

2011. 

A copy of the application will be 

available for public inspection at the 

Office of the Foreign-Trade Zones 

Board’s Executive Secretary at the 

address listed above and in the ‘‘Reading 

Room’’ section of the Board’s Web site, 

which is accessible via 

http://www.trade.gov/ftz. 

For further information, contact Pierre 

Duy at Pierre.Duy@trade.gov or (202) 

482–1378. 

Dated: February 10, 2011. 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

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