Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 94 / Tuesday, May 14, 1996 / Notices 24271

Whereas, the Board’s regulations (15

CFR Part 400) provide for the

establishment of special-purpose

subzones when existing zone facilities

cannot serve the specific use involved;

Whereas, an application from the

Triangle J Council of Governments,

grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 93, for

authority to establish special-purpose

subzone status at the

telecommunications and computer

equipment manufacturing facility of the

Custom Manufacturing Services unit of

Lucent Technologies Inc., in Whitsett,

North Carolina, was filed by the Board

on March 27, 1995, and notice inviting

public comment was given in the

Federal Register (FTZ Docket 9–95, 60

FR 17052, 4–4–95); and,

Whereas, the Board adopts the

findings and recommendations of the

examiner’s reports, and finds that the

requirements of the FTZ Act and

Board’s regulations are satisfied, and

that approval of the application is in the

public interest;

Now, therefore, the Board hereby

authorizes the establishment of a

subzone (Subzone 93E) at the plant of

Custom Manufacturing Services, Lucent

Technologies Inc., in Whitsett, North

Carolina, at the location described in the

application, subject to the FTZ Act and

the Board’s regulations, including

§ 400.28.

Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of

April 1996.

Susan G. Esserman,

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import

Administration, Alternate Chairman, ForeignTrade Zones Board.

Attest:

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–11937 Filed 5–13–96; 8:45 am]

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[Docket 36–96]

Foreign-Trade Zone 7—Mayaguez, PR;

Application for Subzone Status, Mani

Can Corporation Facilities, (Steel

Cans), Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by the Puerto Rico Industrial

Development Company, grantee of FTZ

7, requesting special-purpose subzone

status for the easy-open steel can

processing facilities of Mani Can

Corporation (MCC) (a wholly-owned

affiliate of Star-Kist Foods, Inc., in turn

wholly owned by the H. J. Heinz

Company), located in Mayaguez, Puerto

Rico. 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 May 7, 1996.

The proposed subzone would consist

of MCC’s two steel can processing

facilities located within the Industrial

Port Urbanization area of the City of

Mayaguez: Site 1 (120,000 sq.ft. on 10

acres)—located on Lots 9, 10, 11, and 12

at Street No. 3 and the Mani-Sabanetas

Highway; and, Site 2 (104,000 sq.ft.)

within a building located at Gonzalez

Clemente Avenue and Street No. 3,

some 475 meters east of Site 1. The

facilities (150 employees) are used to

fabricate cans and related can parts

(sheets, easy-open ends, sanitary ends)

used for food products (e.g., tuna fish,

pet food). The production process

involves cutting steel coils, pressing,

enamel coating, and packaging. Some 70

percent of the steel coils would be

purchased from abroad, including tin

free steel (HTSUS #7210.50; duty rate4.6%) and electro-tin plated steel

(HTSUS #7210.11; 2.8%). The finished

cans and parts are mostly sold to Heinzaffiliated canning plants in Puerto Rico,

California, Kansas, and Pennsylvania.

Zone procedures would exempt MCC

from Customs duty payments on the

foreign steel used in the export

production. On its domestic sales, the

company would be able to choose the

duty rates that apply to the finished

cans (duty free) and can ends (4.7%) for

the foreign steel inputs noted above.

Zone procedures would also exempt

certain foreign steel that becomes scrap

during the production process (about

10%) from Customs duties. The

application indicates that subzone

status would help improve the

international competitiveness of the

MCC plant as well as other Heinzaffiliated domestic canning facilities. .

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 July 15, 1996. Rebuttal

comments in response to material

submitted during the foregoing period

may be submitted during the subsequent

15-day period (to July 29, 1996).

A copy of the application and the

accompanying exhibits will be available

for public inspection at each of the

following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce, District

Office, Federal Building, Room G–55,

Chardon Avenue, Hato Rey, PR 00918

Office of the Executive Secretary,

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S.

Department of Commerce, Room

3716, 14th Street & Pennsylvania

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230–

0002.

Dated: May 7, 1996.

Dennis Puccinelli,

Acting Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–11938 Filed 5–13–96; 8:45 am]

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International Trade Administration

[A–791–803]

Notice of Final Determination of Sales

at Less Than Fair Value: Circular

Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe From

South Africa

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 14, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jennifer Stagner or John Beck, Office of

Antidumping Investigations, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

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

Telephone: (202) 482–1673 or (202)

482–3464, respectively.

The Applicable Statute

Unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the

Act) are references to the provisions

effective January 1, 1995, the effective

date of the amendments made to the Act

by the Uruguay Rounds Agreements Act

(URAA). In addition, unless otherwise

indicated, all citations to the

Department’s regulations are to the

current regulations, as amended by the

interim regulations published in the

Federal Register on May 11, 1995 (60

FR 25130).

Final Determination

As explained in the memoranda from

the Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration dated November 22,

1995, and January 11, 1996, the

Department of Commerce (the

Department) has exercised its discretion

to toll all deadlines for the duration of

the partial shutdowns of the Federal

Government from November 15 through

November 21, 1995, and December 16,

1995, through January 6, 1996. Thus, the

deadline for the final determination in

this investigation has been extended by

28 days, i.e., one day for each full or

partial day the Department was closed.

As such, the deadline for this final