[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 58 (Monday, March 25, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 12060]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-7048]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 23-96]
Foreign-Trade Zone 207, Richmond, Virginia, Application for
Subzone Status; Abbott Manufacturing, Inc., Plant (Infant Formula,
Adult Nutritional Products), Altavista, VA
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Capital Region Airport Commission, grantee of FTZ
207, requesting special-purpose subzone status for export activity at
the infant formula and adult nutritional products manufacturing plant
of Abbott Manufacturing, Inc. (AMI) (a subsidiary of Abbott
Laboratories, Inc.), located in Altavista, Virginia. 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 March 12, 1996.
The AMI plant (1,000,000 sq. ft. on 215 acres) is located at U.S.
Highway 29 North and State Route 711 in the City of Altavista (Campbell
County), Virginia, approximately 20 miles south of Lynchburg, Virginia.
The facility (650 employees) is used to produce milk and sugar-based
infant formula and adult nutritional products for export and the
domestic market; however, zone procedures would be used only for
production for export. The production process involves blending
foreign, ex-quota milk powder and foreign, ex-quota sugar with
domestically-sourced oils, soy isolates, vitamins and minerals, and EZO
ends. Other foreign-sourced items that may be used in the export-
blending activity include: cocoa powder, pharmaceutical grade fat
emulsions, vitamins and minerals, and caseinates (up to 14% of finished
product value). All foreign-origin milk and sugar would be re-exported
as ingredients in finished blended products.
Zone procedures would exempt AMI from quota requirements and
Customs duty payments on the foreign milk and sugar products used in
the export activity, and they would also exempt the company from
Customs duty payments on the other foreign ingredients involved. The
application indicates that subzone status 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 May 24, 1996. Rebuttal comments in response
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted
during the subsequent 15-day period (to June 10, 1996).
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, District Office, 700 Centre, Suite 550,
704 East Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23219.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue
NW., Washington, DC 20230-0002.
Dated: March 14, 1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-7048 Filed 3-22-96; 8:45 am]
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