[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 122 (Friday, June 23, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39123-39124]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-15964]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 29-2000]


Application for Subzone Status; Archer Daniels Midland, Inc. 
(Natural Vitamin E), Decatur, Illinois

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Decatur Park District, which has an application 
pending for Foreign-Trade Zone status, requesting special-purpose 
subzone status for the natural Vitamin E manufacturing facility of 
Archer Daniels Midland, Inc. (ADM) in Decatur, Illinois. ADM is a 
global agricultural products company. The application was submitted 
pursuant to the provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as amended 
(19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR part 
400). It was formally filed on June 13, 2000.
    ADM's 80-acre West Plant site is located at 3700 East Division 
Street in the city of Decatur (Macon County), Illinois, some 60 miles 
south of Chicago. The facility (400 employees) is comprised of a 
soybean crushing operation, a vegetable oil refinery operation, a 
lecithin operation, a packaged oil operation, a specialty food 
additives operation, and the vitamin E operation (120,000 sq. ft./6 
acres). The application requests authority to manufacture only Vitamin 
E, other tocopherols, sterols and fatty acids under zone procedures. 
The only raw material in the production of these products is vegetable 
oil distillate, a portion of which is sourced abroad. More than 20 
percent of ADM's production of natural Vitamin E is exported.
    Zone procedures would exempt ADM from Customs duty payments on 
foreign materials used in production for export. On domestic shipments, 
the company would be able to choose the duty rates that apply to the 
finished products (duty-free to 8.0%) instead of the rates otherwise 
applicable to the foreign material (deodorizer distillate rates could 
range from duty-free to 9.3% + 1.5 cents/kg., depending on Customs 
classification and GSP status). The application indicates that the 
savings from zone procedures will help improve the international 
competitiveness of ADM's Decatur plant and will help increase exports.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ 
Staff has been designated examiner to investigate the application and 
report 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 address below. The closing period for their receipt is 
August 22, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to September 6, 2000).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 4008, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230
Airport Administrative Office, Decatur Airport, 910 Airport Road, 
Decatur, IL 62521



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    Dated: June 13, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-15964 Filed 6-22-00; 8:45 am]
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