Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 133 / Monday, July 13, 1998 / Notices 37515

square feet/96.15 acres in San Diego

(San Diego County), California: Site 1 (9

bldgs/ 499,757 sq. ft./3.32 acres)—

production and warehousing facility

located at 16399 W. Bernardo Drive; Site

2 (1 bldg./52,413 sq. ft./3.32 acres)—

administrative facility located at 16262

W. Bernardo Drive; Site 3 (1 bldg./

202,408 sq. ft./5.65 acres)—production

and warehousing facility located at

16550 W. Bernardo Drive; Site 4 (2

bldgs/44,982 sq. ft./2.11 acres)—

production and warehousing facility

located at 15890–15910 Bernardo Center

Drive; and Site 5 ( 2 bldgs/252,000 sq.

ft./17.84 acres)—production and

warehousing facility located at 12270

World Trade Drive.

The facilities (2,050 employees) are

used for storage, manufacture, and

distribution for import and export of

computers and related devices, printers,

electronic test and measurement

devices, electronic medical products,

and related electronic products and

components. A number of components

are purchased from abroad (an

estimated 40% of value of manufactured

products), including printed circuit

boards, silicon wafers, rectifiers,

integrated circuits, memory modules,

CD–ROM drives, disk drives, scanners,

hard drives, keyboards, monitors/

displays (CRT and LCD type), LEDs,

speakers, microphones, belts, valves,

bearings, plastic materials, industrial

chemicals, sensors, filters, resistors,

transducers, fuses, plugs, relays, ink

cartridges, toner cartridges, switches,

fasteners, cards, transformers, DC/

electric motors, magnets, modems,

batteries, cabinets, power supplies,

cables, copper wire, power cords,

optical fiber, casters, cases, labels, and

packaging materials (1997 duty range:

free-14.2%). (Full zone procedures are

not being sought for certain linear

motion bearings, display tubes and

parts, optical fiber and related parts.)

Zone procedures would exempt

Hewlett-Packard from Customs duty

payments on foreign components used

in export production. On its domestic

sales, Hewlett-Packard would be able to

choose the lower duty rate that applies

to the finished products (free-13.2%,

mostly duty-free) for the foreign

components noted above. 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 parties.

Submissions (original and three copies)

shall be addressed to the Board’s

Executive Secretary at the address

below. The closing period for their

receipt is September 11, 1998. Rebuttal

comments in response to material

submitted during the foregoing period

may be submitted during the subsequent

15-day period to September 28, 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,

NW, Washington, DC 20230.

U.S. Department of Commerce, Export

Assistance Center, 363 Greenwich

Drive, Suite 230, San Diego, California

92122.

Dated: July 2, 1998.

Dennis Puccinelli,

Acting Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–18601 Filed 7–10–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 35–98]

Foreign-Trade Zone 122—Corpus

Christi, Texas; Application for ForeignTrade Subzone Status; Ultramar

Diamond Shamrock Corporation; Oil

Refinery

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by the Port of Corpus Christi

Authority, grantee of FTZ 122,

requesting special-purpose subzone

status for the oil refinery and

petrochemical complex of Diamond

Shamrock Refining Company L.P. (an

affiliate of Ultramar Diamond Shamrock

Corporation), located in Three Rivers,

Texas. 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 30, 1998.

The refinery and petrochemical

complex (463 acres, 300 employees) is

located at 301 Leroy Street on the Frio

River, Three Rivers (Live Oak County),

Texas, some 75 miles northwest of

Corpus Christi. The refinery (90,000

BPD) is used to produce fuels and

petrochemical feedstocks. Fuel products

include gasoline, jet fuel, distillates,

residual fuels, naphthas and motor fuel

blendstocks. Petrochemical feedstocks

and refinery by-products include

methane, ethane, propane, liquid

natural gas, propylene, ethylene,

butylene, butane, butadiene, cumene,

benzene, toluene, xylene, petroleum

coke, asphalt and sulfur. Some 90–95

percent of the crude oil (99 percent of

inputs), and some motor fuel

blendstocks are sourced abroad.

Zone procedures would exempt the

refinery from Customs duty payments

on the foreign products used in its

exports. On domestic sales, the

company would be able to choose the

Customs duty rates that apply to certain

petrochemical feedstocks and refinery

by-products (duty-free) by admitting

incoming foreign crude oil and natural

gas condensate in non-privileged foreign

status. The duty rates on inputs range

from 5.25¢/barrel to 10.5¢/barrel. Under

the FTZ Act, certain merchandise in

FTZ status is exempt from ad valorem

inventory-type taxes. The application

indicates that the savings from zone

procedures would help improve the

refinery’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 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 September 11, 1998.

Rebuttal comments in response to

material submitted during the foregoing

period may be submitted during the

subsequent 15-day period (to September

28, 1998.)

A copy of the application and

accompanying exhibits will be available

for public inspection at each of the

following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce, export

Assistance Center, 222 N. Main, Suite

450, San Antonio, Texas 78212

Office of the Executive Secretary,

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room

3716, U.S. Department of Commerce,

14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20230

Dated: July 2, 1998.

Dennis Puccinelli,

Acting Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–18600 Filed 7–10–98; 8:45 am]

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