[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 216 (Monday, November 9, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60293-60294]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-29853]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 47-98]
Foreign-Trade Zone 41--Milwaukee, WI, Application for Subzone
Status; Mercury Marine (Inc.) (Marine Propulsion Products) Fond du Lac
and Oshkosh, WI
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Foreign Trade Zone of Wisconsin, Ltd., grantee of
FTZ 41, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the marine
propulsion products manufacturing facilities of Mercury Marine (Inc.),
located in Fond du Lac and Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 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 October 30, 1998.
The proposed subzone would consist of 11 total sites, 10 (totaling
2.5 million sq.ft., manufacturing/warehousing) of which are in Fond du
Lac (Fond du Lac County): Site 1 (12 acres)--Plant 95, 325 Larsen
Drive; Site 2 (9 acres)--Plant 4,98, 660 South Hickory Street; Sites 3
and 4 (29 acres)--Plant 4, 660 South Hickory Street; Site 5 (21
acres)--Plant 17, W6207 Pioneer Road, Site 6 (11 acres)--Plant 17A, 771
South Military Road; Site 7 (79 acres)--Plants 3, 10, 12, 15, 52/``Main
Plant'', W6250 Pioneer Road; Site 8 (1 acre)--Adjacent south to Site 3
at Pioneer Road; Site 9 (2 acres)--Water Street Plant, along Fond du
Lac River at Water Street; Site 10 (13 acres)--Plant 36, N7480 County
Road UU. Site 11 (10 acres/100,000 sq.ft., warehouses)--Plants 33 and
64, located at 445-505 Marion Road in Oshkosh (Winnebago County),
Wisconsin. The facilities (2,500 employees) are used to produce marine
outboard and jet pump engines (up to 450 horsepower) for the U.S.
market and export. The application indicates that foreign-sourced parts
and materials comprise some 20 percent of the finished marine engines'
material value, including: oil, alcohols, adhesives, plastic casings,
adhesive sheets/plates, ethylene bags, packaging materials, rubber
profiles/tubes/hoses/gaskets, belts, valves, ball/roller bearings, oil
seals, antifreeze, articles of wood, paper books and labels, decals,
twine, textile fabrics with PVC, fiberglass, iron or non alloy tubes/
pipes/profiles/fittings, chain, fasteners, springs, wire/cable, base
metal mountings, internal parts of marine engines, gears, ignition
systems, electrical subcomponents, compasses, gauges, measuring and
controlling instruments, starters, flywheels, pulleys, shafts, electric
motors, propellers, electromagnetic couplings, electronic components,
pumps, and filters (duty rates: free--9.8%).
FTZ procedures would exempt Mercury Marine from Customs duty
payments on the foreign items used in production for export. On
domestic shipments, the company would be able to choose the duty rates
during Customs entry procedures that apply to finished marine engines
(free, 2.7%) for the foreign inputs noted above. The application
indicates that the savings from FTZ procedures would help
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improve the facilities' 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 January 8, 1999. Rebuttal comments in
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to January 25, 1999).
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 Export Assistance Center, Room 596, 517 E.
Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53202.
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 30, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 98-29853 Filed 11-6-98; 8:45 am]
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