Wal-Mart is a nationwide discount merchandiser, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. The facility will be used to store, test, and distribute a wide range of consumer products, some of which are of foreign origin. There will be processing activity for some products. Zone procedures would exempt Wal-Mart from Customs duty payments on the foreign products that are reexported. It would be able to defer Customs duty payments on domestic sales, and choose the finished product duty rates on the above noted items processed at the facility.
Public comment is invited from interested parties.
The closing period for their receipt is September 14, 1992. Dated July 6, 1992. John J. Da Ponte, Jr., Executive Secretary.