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the Board’s regulations, including 

Section 400.28, and further subject to 

the Board’s standard 2,000-acre 

activation limit for the overall zone 

project and a sunset provision for Sites 

7 through 10 that would terminate 

authority for the sites on March 31, 

2014, for any of the sites that have not 

been activated under FTZ procedures 

before that date. 

Signed at Washington, DC this 28th day of 

February 2007. 

David M. Spooner, 

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import 

Administration, Alternate Chairman, ForeignTrade Zones Board. 

Attest: 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–4287 Filed 3–8–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign–Trade Zones Board 

[Docket 9–2007] 

Foreign–Trade Zone 38–Spartanburg 

County, South Carolina, Application 

for Subzone, Leiner Health Products 

LLC (Ibuprofen Products), Fort Mill, 

South Carolina 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign–Trade Zones (FTZ) Board 

(the Board) by the South Carolina State 

Ports Authority, grantee of FTZ 38, 

requesting special–purpose subzone 

status with manufacturing authority for 

certain ibuprofen products at the 

pharmaceutical manufacturing facility 

of Leiner Health Products, LLC (Leiner), 

located in Fort Mill, South Carolina. 

Leiner is a manufacturer of store–brand 

vitamin, mineral and nutritional 

supplements (VMS) and over–thecounter (OTC) pharmaceutical products. 

The application was submitted pursuant 

to 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 March 2, 

2007. 

The proposed subzone (1 building of 

620,000 square feet of enclosed space on 

27 acres) is located at 355 Crestmont 

Drive, in Fort Mill, South Carolina. The 

Leiner plant (600 permanent employees 

and 100–200 seasonal employees) 

manufactures, packages, and 

warehouses both solid–dose VMS and 

OTC pharmaceutical products. 

Initially, Leiner is proposing to 

manufacture ibuprofen products under 

zone procedures at the plant. At the 

outset, inverted tariff zone savings will 

result from the production of finished 

ibuprofen mixture (HTSUS 3003.90, 

duty–free) and finished ibuprofen 

products (HTSUS 3004.90, duty–free; 

up to 2.5 billion pills per year) using 

foreign–sourced active ingredient 

ibuprofen (HTSUS 2916.39, 6.5% duty 

rate). 

The application also indicates the 

possibility of producing bulk 

acetaminophen mixture (HTSUS 

3003.90, duty–free) and finished 

acetaminophen products (HTSUS 

3004.90, duty–free), which the company 

may produce at the plant in the future, 

using foreign–sourced active ingredient 

acetaminophen (HTSUS 2924.29, 6.5% 

duty rate). (New major activity for this 

product would require review by the 

FTZ Board.) Leiner also plans to admit 

other foreign inputs under FTZ 

procedures, but will make customs 

entry before manufacture into products 

at the Fort Mill facility or before 

distribution to other Leiner U.S. 

manufacturing facilities. 

For Leiner’s ibuprofen–related 

production, zone procedures would 

exempt the company from Customs duty 

payments on foreign materials used in 

production for export. On domestic 

shipments, the company would be able 

to choose the duty rate during Customs 

entry procedures that applies to finished 

ibuprofen mixture and products (duty–

free) for the otherwise dutiable foreign 

active ingredient inputs (6.5% duty rate) 

noted above (inverted tariff). 

Leiner would also obtain duty deferral 

savings and be able to avoid duty on 

foreign inputs which become scrap/ 

waste (approximately 5% scrap and 

waste rate). Additionally, Leiner may 

realize logistical/procedural and other 

benefits from subzone status. The 

application projects up to $642,000 in 

total FTZ savings (some 65% of which 

are tied to the inverted tariff on 

ibuprofen), which it indicates would 

help improve the international 

competitiveness of Leiner’s Fort Mill 

plant.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. Information 

submitted for the record generally 

should be in a non–proprietary format. 

If there is a need to submit business 

proprietary information, it should be 

appropriately marked and summarized 

or ranged (in the case of numerical data) 

in the public submission, which should 

be accompanied by a single business 

proprietary version. 

Submissions (original and 3 copies) 

shall be addressed to the Board’s 

Executive Secretary at the address 

below. The closing period for the receipt 

of the public comment submissions is 

May 10, 2007. Rebuttal comments in 

response to material submitted during 

the foregoing period may be submitted 

during the subsequent 15-day period 

through May 25, 2007. 

A copy of the application will be 

available for public inspection at each of 

the following locations: U.S. 

Department of Commerce Export 

Assistance Center, 521 East Morehead 

Street, Suite 435, Charlotte, NC 28217; 

and, Office of the Executive Secretary, 

Foreign–Trade Zones Board, Room 

2814B, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, 

Washington, D.C. 20230–0002. 

For further information, contact Diane 

Finver at DianelFinver@ita.doc.gov or 

(202) 482–1367. 

Dated: March 5, 2007. 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–4285 Filed 3–8–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–475–801, A–412–801] 

Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof from 

Italy and the United Kingdom: Initiation 

of Antidumping Duty Changed–

Circumstances Reviews 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

has received information sufficient to 

warrant initiation of changed–

circumstances reviews of the 

antidumping duty orders on ball 

bearings and parts thereof from Italy and 

the United Kingdom pursuant to section 

751(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 9, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kristin Case at (202) 482–3174 or 

Richard Rimlinger at (202) 482–4477, 

AD/CVD Operations, Office 5, Import 

Administration, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Department of Commerce (the 

Department) published antidumping 

duty orders on ball bearings and parts 

thereof from Italy and the United 

Kingdom on May 15, 1989. See 

Antidumping Duty Orders: Ball Bearings 


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