Subzone status is important for Intel's expansion plans in Chandler, Arizona. Foreign-sourced components and materials would include processors, disk drives, displays, printers, keyboards, printed circuit boards, transformers, capacitors, resistors, diodes, integrated circuits, electrical switches, wire, adhesives, photographic chemicals, poly vinyl chloride, resins, plastics, industrial gold, glass and ceramic products, batteries, fasteners, recording media, video apparatus, microphones, speakers, lamps, optical elements, electrodes and packaging. Zone procedures would exempt Intel from Customs duty payments on foreign materials used in production for export. The application indicates that the savings from zone procedures will 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 is invited from interested parties.
The closing period for their receipt January 28, 1994. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period February 14, 1994. Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230. John J. Da Ponte, Jr., Executive Secretary.