[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 211 (Wednesday, October 30, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 55955]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-27857]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 77-96]
Foreign-Trade Zone 147--Reading, Pennsylvania; Request for
Manufacturing Authority, Baker Refractories, Inc. (Refractory Bricks)
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Foreign Trade Zone Corporation of Southeastern
Pennsylvania, grantee of FTZ 147, pursuant to Sec. 400.28(a)(2) of the
Board's regulations (15 CFR Part 400), requesting authority on behalf
of Baker Refractories, Inc. (Baker), to manufacture refractory bricks
under zone procedures within FTZ 147. It was formally filed on October
18, 1996.
The Baker plant (446,000 sq. ft. on 624 acres) is located at 225
North Emigsville Road within a proposed site of FTZ 147 in the
International Trade District of York, in the County of York,
Pennsylvania. (Pending expansion application: Docket 3-96, 61 FR 2487,
1-26-96.) The Baker plant (360 employees) is used to manufacture
refractory bricks and related products for the metals and mineral
processing industries. A key material component, magnesia, is sourced
from abroad (magnesia duty rate, $0.2/kg). The finished magnesite
bricks are duty-free. The application indicates that 35 percent of the
plant's shipments are exported.
Zone procedures would exempt Baker from Customs duty payments on
the foreign components used in export production. On its domestic
sales, Baker would be able to defer duty payments on the foreign
sourced magnesia until the finished bricks (duty-free) are shipped from
the plant. The company is also seeking an exemption from Customs duties
on scrap and waste that is generated in the production process (2.5%).
The request indicates that the savings from zone procedures would 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 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 November 29, 1996. Rebuttal comments in
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to December 16, 1996).
A copy of the application and the accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at the following location: Office of
the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. Department of
Commerce, Room 3716, 14th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: October 18, 1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-27857 Filed 10-29-96; 8:45 am]
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