3000 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 20 / Tuesday, January 30, 1996 / Notices

Inspection Facility, Room 6020, U.S.

Department of Commerce, Washington,

D.C. For further information, call Lee

Ann Carpenter at (202) 482–2583.

Dated: January 25, 1996.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.

[FR Doc. 96–1746 Filed 1–29–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DT–M

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 6–96]

Foreign-Trade Zone 14—Little Rock,

AR Application for Subzone; Cedar

Chemical Corporation (Agricultural

and Specialty Chemicals) West Helena,

AR

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by the Little Rock Port Authority

on behalf of the State of Arkansas

Department of Industrial Development,

grantee of FTZ 14, requesting specialpurpose subzone status for the

agricultural and specialty chemical

manufacturing facility of Cedar

Chemical Corporation (Cedar) (whollyowned subsidiary of Trans-Resources,

Inc.), in West Helena, Arkansas. 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 January 19, 1996.

The Cedar plant (48 acres) is located

within the Helena/West Helena

Industrial Park at Hwy. 242 South, West

Helena (Phillips County), Arkansas,

some 120 miles east of Little Rock. The

facility is used to produce agricultural

chemicals, chemicals for the

pharmaceutical industry and other

specialty chemical products. A

substantial portion of the plant’s activity

involves contract manufacturing. The

main products currently manufactured

at the plant are Diuron Technical and

Linuron Technical bulk herbicides and

Trometamol, a pH buffering agent for

pharmaceutical and industrial

applications and a custommanufactured herbicide intermediate for

a global agricultural chemical producer.

Some 50 percent of the Cedar-brand

products are exported.

Zone procedures would exempt Cedar

from Customs duty payments on foreign

materials used in production for export.

On domestic shipments, the company or

its customers (operating under zone

procedures) would be able to choose the

duty rates that apply to the finished

products instead of the duty-rates that

would otherwise apply to the foreignsourced materials. The HTSUS category

and duty rates for the final products and

associated inputs are as follows:

Final product/input HTSUS No. Duty rate

DIURON TECHNICAL/3,4-dichlorophenyl isocyanate ............................................................................. 2924.21.1600 12.8%

2929.10.3000 $0.026/kg + 15.2%

LINURON TECHNICAL/3,4-dichlorophenyl isocyanate ........................................................................... 2924.21.1600 12.8%

2929.10.3000 $0.026/kg + 15.2%

HERBICIDE (for customer)/benzoic acid compounds ............................................................................. 2935.00.1300 duty-free

2916.31.5000 $0.03/kg + 16.8%

TROMETAMOL/nitromethane .................................................................................................................. 2922.21.1600 duty-free

2904.20.5000 7.4%

At the outset, the main use of zone

procedures would be to allow a

customer (operating under zone

procedures) choose the duty rate that

applies to its finished product (dutyfree) rather than the duty rate that

would otherwise apply to the foreignsourced item ($0.03/kg + 16.8%). The

application indicates that the savings

from zone procedures will help improve

the international competitiveness of

Cedar and its customers.

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 April 1, 1996. Rebuttal

comments in response to material

submitted during the foregoing period

may be submitted during the subsequent

15-day period (to April 15, 1996.)

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 District

Office, TCBY Tower Bldg., Suite 700,

425 West Capitol Ave., Little Rock,

Arkansas 72201

Office of the Executive Secretary,

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S.

Department of Commerce, Room

3716, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue,

NW., Washington, DC 20230

Dated: January 22, 1996.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–1612 Filed 1–29–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

[Docket 5–96]

Foreign-Trade Zone 25—Broward

County, FL; Application for Subzone

Status; Federal-Mogul World Trade,

Inc. (Vehicle Components) Ft.

Lauderdale, FL

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by Broward County, Florida,

grantee of FTZ 25, requesting specialpurpose subzone status for the

warehouse/distribution facility of

Federal-Mogul World Trade, Inc.

(Federal-Mogul), in Ft. Lauderdale,

Florida. (The Federal-Mogul site is

currently being operated as part of the

general-purpose zone on a temporary

basis (until 12–1–96)). 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

January 19, 1996.

The Federal-Mogul facility (200,000

sq. ft. on 17 acres, 109 employees) is

located at 1600 North Park Drive, Fort

Lauderdale (Broward County), Florida.

It is used to warehouse and distribute

vehicle components, such as bearings,

brakes, pistons, valves, shocks, gaskets

and water pumps. Over 90 percent of

the products are reexported, primarily

to Latin America.

FTZ procedures would exempt

Federal-Mogul from Customs duty

payments on the foreign items that are

reexported. On its domestic sales, the

company would be able to defer

Customs duties until the foreign items

are shipped from the plant. The

application indicates that subzone

status would help to improve the

company’s international

competitiveness.