Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 216 / Friday, November 7, 1997 / Notices 60219

MS: 3886C, 14th & Pennsylvania

Avenue, N.W., U.S. Department of

Commerce, Washington, D.C. 20230.

The Assistant Secretary for

Administration, with the concurrence of

the delegate of the General Counsel,

formally determined on December 16,

1996, pursuant to Section 10(d) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as

amended, that the series of meetings or

portions of meetings of the Committee

and of any Subcommittees thereof,

dealing with the classified materials

listed in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) shall be

exempt from the provisions relating to

public meetings found in section

10(a)(1) and (a)(3), of the Federal

Advisory Committee Act. The remaining

series of meetings or portions thereof

will be open to the public. A copy of the

Notice of Determination to close

meetings or portions of meetings of the

Committee is available for public

inspection and copying in the Central

Reference and Records Inspection

Facility, Room 6020, U.S. Department of

Commerce, Washington, D.C. For

further information, call Lee Ann

Carpenter at (202) 482–2583.

Dated: November 3, 1997.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.

[FR Doc. 97–29404 Filed 11–6–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DT–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 78–97]

Foreign-Trade Zone 75—Phoenix,

Arizona Application For Foreign-Trade

Subzone Status; Microchip

Technology Inc. (Semiconductors)

Chandler and Tempe, Arizona

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by the City of Phoenix, Arizona,

grantee of FTZ 75, requesting specialpurpose subzone status for the

semiconductor manufacturing facilities

of Microchip Technology Inc.

(Microchip), located at sites in Chandler

and Tempe, Arizona. The application

was submitted pursuant to the ForeignTrade 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 October 30, 1997.

The Microchip facilities are located at

two sites in the Phoenix area (Maricopa

County): Site 1—(242,000 sq. ft. plus

475,000 sq. ft. planned on 80 acres)

2355 West Chandler Boulevard,

Chandler, and Site 2—(200,000 sq. ft. on

6 acres) 1200 South 52nd Street, Tempe.

The facilities (1,100 employees) are

used for the manufacture of a range of

semiconductor devices and related

products, including field programmable

microcontrollers, application-specific

processors, related memory products,

and application development tools.

Foreign-sourced materials (some 10% of

total) include halides, adhesives, resins,

chemical preparations for photographic

uses, molybdenum, transformers,

convertors and inductors, insulated

wire, instruments for measuring or

checking electrical quantities, plastic

sheets, plastic and paper packaging

materials. Other materials that may also

be purchased from abroad include glues

and adhesives, transformers, resistors,

diodes, transistors, integrated circuits,

printed circuits, switches, fasteners,

recorded media, and other electrical and

automatic data processing equipment

and components.

Zone procedures would exempt

Microchip from Customs duty payments

on foreign components used in export

production (some 65% of shipments).

On its domestic sales, Microchip would

be able to choose the lower duty rate

that applies to the finished products

(duty-free—3%). The duty rates that

apply on foreign-sourced items range

from duty-free to 12.5 percent (with

most in the 2.1%–7.3% range). FTZ

procedures would also allow the

deferral of duty payments on foreign

capital equipment and parts until fully

assembled and ready for production.

The application indicates that the

savings from zone procedures would

help improve the plant’s international

competitiveness.

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 on the application is

invited from interested

partiesSubmissions (original and three

copies) shall be addressed to the Board’s

Executive Secretary at the address

below. The closing period for their

receipt is January 6, 1998. Rebuttal

comments in response to material

submitted during the foregoing period

may be submitted during the subsequent

15-day period to January 21, 1998.

A copy of the application and the

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

3716, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue,

N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230.

U.S. Department of Commerce, Export

Assistance Center, Phoenix Plaza,

2901 North Central Avenue, Suite

970, Phoenix, Arizona.

Dated: October 31, 1997.

John J. DaPonte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–29496 Filed 11–6–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty

Order, Finding, or Suspended

Investigation; Opportunity To Request

Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Opportunity to

Request Administrative Review of

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty

Order, Finding, or Suspended

Investigation.

Background

Each year during the anniversary

month of the publication of an

antidumping or countervailing duty

order, finding, or suspension of

investigation, an interested party, as

defined in section 771(9) of the Tariff

Act of 1930, as amended, may request,

in accordance with section 351.213 of

the Department of Commerce (the

Department) Regulations (19 CFR

351.213 (1997)), that the Department

conduct an administrative review of that

antidumping or countervailing duty

order, finding, or suspended

investigation.

Opportunity To Request A Review:

Not later than the last day of November

1997, interested parties may request

administrative review of the following

orders, findings, or suspended

investigations, with anniversary dates in

November for the following periods:

Antidumping duty proceedings Period

Argentina: Barbed Wire & Barbless Fencing Wire

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