[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 117 (Friday, June 18, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32844-32845]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-15566]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 1039]
Grant of Authority for Subzone Status Kvaerner Philadelphia
Shipyard, Inc. (Shipbuilding), Philadelphia, PA
Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June
18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) adopts the following Order:
Whereas, by an Act of Congress approved June 18, 1934, an Act ``To
provide for the establishment * * * of foreign-trade zones in ports of
entry of the United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce,
and for other purposes,'' as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u) (the FTZ Act),
the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) is authorized to grant to
qualified corporations the privilege of establishing foreign-trade
zones in or adjacent to U.S. Customs ports of entry; Whereas, the
Board's regulations (15 CFR Part 400) provide for the establishment of
special-purpose subzones when existing zone facilities
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cannot serve the specific use involved, and when the activity results
in a significant public benefit and is in the public interest;
Whereas, an application from the Philadelphia Regional Port
Authority, grantee of FTZ 35, for authority to establish special-
purpose subzone status for the shipbuilding facility of Kvaerner
Philadelphia Shipyard, Inc., in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was filed
by the Board on December 10, 1998, and notice inviting public comment
was given in the Federal Register (FTZ Docket 56-98, 63 FR 69261, 12-
16-98); and,
Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and
Board's regulations would be satisfied, and that approval of the
application would be in the public interest if approval were given
subject to the standard shipyard restriction on foreign steel mill
products;
Now, Therefore, the Board hereby grants authority for subzone
status at the shipbuilding facility of Kvaerner Philadelphia Shipyard,
Inc., in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Subzone 35E), at the location
described in the application, subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's
regulations, including Sec. 400.28, and subject to the following
special conditions:
1. Any foreign steel mill products admitted to the subzone,
including plate, angles, shapes, channels, rolled steel stock, bars,
pipes and tubes, not incorporated into merchandise otherwise
classified, and which is used in manufacturing, shall be subject to
Customs duties in accordance with applicable law, unless the
Executive Secretary determines that the same item is not then being
produced by a domestic steel mill; and,
2. In addition to the annual report, Kvaerner Philadelphia
Shipyard, Inc., shall advise the Board's Executive Secretary
(Sec. 400.28(a)(3)) as to significant new contracts with appropriate
information concerning foreign purchases otherwise dutiable, so that
the Board may consider whether any foreign dutiable items are being
imported for manufacturing in the subzone primarily because of
subzone status and whether the Board should consider requiring
Customs duties to be paid on such items.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 3rd day of June 1999.
Richard W. Moreland,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration,
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 99-15566 Filed 6-17-99; 8:45 am]
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