[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 86 (Wednesday, May 5, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 24572]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-10614]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 28-2010]


Foreign-Trade Zone 29 - Louisville, Kentucky, Application for 
Subzone, Louisville Bedding Company (Household Bedding Products), 
Louisville and Munfordville, Kentucky

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Louisville & Jefferson County Riverport Authority, 
grantee of FTZ 29, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the 
bedding products manufacturing facilities of Louisville Bedding Company 
(LBC) located in Louisville and Munfordville, Kentucky. 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 April 26, 2010.
    The LBC facilities (530 employees) consist of three sites: Site 1 - 
manufacturing plant and warehouse (26.1 acres) located at 10400 Bunsen 
Way, Louisville; Site 2 - warehouse (4.3 acres) located at 100 Quality 
Street, Munfordville; and, Site 3 - manufacturing plant and warehouse 
(27.7 acres) located at 660 National Turnpike, Munfordville, Kentucky. 
The facilities are used to manufacture household bedding products, 
including mattress pads and pillows (up to 10 million pillows and 10 
million mattress pads annually) for the U.S. market and export. LBC is 
requesting authority to utilize foreign-origin wide roll (80 inches and 
wider), high thread count (180 threads per inch and higher) cotton, 
polyester, and synthetic woven fabric and pillow shells (classified 
under HTSUS Headings 5208, 5210, 5512, 5513, and 6307; duty rate range: 
7 - 14.9%) to be cut, sewn, quilted and assembled into the bedding 
products noted above under FTZ procedures.
    FTZ procedures could exempt LBC from customs duty payments on the 
foreign-origin fabrics and pillow shells used in export production. On 
its shipments for the domestic market, the finished household bedding 
products would be entered for consumption from the proposed subzone 
classified under HTSUS 9404.90, and LBC is seeking authority to elect 
the various finished bedding product duty rates (4.4 - 7.3%, ad 
valorem) for the foreign-origin fabric and pillow shell material 
inputs. Domestic-status fibers would be used to fill the foreign pillow 
shells. The application indicates that the savings from FTZ procedures 
would help improve the facilities' international competitiveness.
    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 July 6, 2010. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to July 19, 2010.
    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 website, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz. For further 
information, contact Pierre Duy at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#32625b574040571c76474b7246405356571c555d44"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d888b1bdaaaabdf69cada198acaab9bcbdf6bfb7ae">[email protected]</span></a> or (202) 482-
1378.

    Dated: April 26, 2010.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-10614 Filed 5-4-10; 8:45 am]
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