[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 17875]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-9985]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 28-96]
Foreign-Trade Zone 138--Columbus, OH, Application for Subzone
Status; Abbott Manufacturing, Inc./Ross Products, Plant (Infant
Formula, Adult Nutritional Products), Columbus, OH
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Rickenbacker Port Authority, grantee of FTZ 138,
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 Columbus, Ohio. 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 April 9, 1996.
The plant (642,000 sq. ft. on 56 acres), known as the Ross Products
facility, is located at 585 Cleveland Avenue in the City of Columbus
(Franklin County), Ohio. The facility (560 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 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 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 June 24, 1996. Rebuttal comments in
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to July 8, 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, 4th Floor, 37 North High
Street, Columbus, OH 43215.
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: April 12, 1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-9985 Filed 4-22-96; 8:45 am]
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