[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 59 (Friday, March 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14898-14899]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-8109]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 13-98]
Foreign-Trade Zone 216--Olympia, WA Request for Export Processing
Authority; Darigold, Inc. Dairy By-Products
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Port of Olympia, grantee of FTZ 216, pursuant to
Sec. 400.32(b)(1) of the Board's regulations (15 CFR Part 400),
requesting authority on behalf of Darigold, Inc. (Darigold), to process
certain dairy by-products for export under FTZ procedures within FTZ
216. It was formally filed on March 19, 1998.
Darigold operates a 74,000 square foot dairy product processing
facility (37 employees) within FTZ 216--Site 13 located at 67 S.W.
Chehalis Avenue in Chehalis, Washington, for manufacturing/ processing
a variety of dairy products, such as dry milk and whey, for the U.S.
market and export. This application requests authority on behalf of
Darigold to process foreign origin, ex-quota liquid whey permeate (a
by-product of cheese manufacturing) into dried whey under FTZ
procedures for export. In this activity, foreign whey permeate (HTSUS
0404.10.11, duty rate--13%) would be admitted to FTZ 216 to be
processed (pasteurized,
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evaporated, crystallized, dried) into powdered whey (HTSUS 0404.10.50,
3.3%). All of the finished powdered whey would be exported in 25
kilogram bags, and no foreign, ex-quota liquid whey permeate would be
entered for U.S. consumption.
FTZ procedures would exempt Darigold from U.S. dairy product quota
requirements and Customs duty payments on the foreign whey permeate
used in this export activity. The application indicates that the
savings from FTZ procedures would help improve the plant's
international competitiveness.
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 11, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted
during the subsequent 15-day period (to May 26, 1998).
A copy of the application will be available for public inspection
at the following location: Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-
Trade Zones Board, Room 3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street
& Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: March 19, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-8109 Filed 3-26-98; 8:45 am]
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