[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 167 (Friday, August 28, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45997-45998]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23236]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 41-98]
Foreign-Trade Zone 50--Long Beach, California Application for
Subzone Status Rauch Industries, Inc. (Distribution of Consumer Goods)
Mira Loma, California
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Board of Harbor Commissioners, Port of Long Beach,
grantee of FTZ 50, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the
consumer goods distribution facility of Rauch Industries, Inc., located
in Mira Loma, California. 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 August 20, 1998.
The Rauch facility (880,000 sq. ft. on 42 acres) is located at
11640 Harrell Street, Mira Loma, California, some 50 miles northeast of
Long Beach. The facility (56 employees) is used for storage,
inspection, packaging and distribution of a wide variety of consumer
products such as table top, giftware and decorative accessories,
seasonal products, flatware, hollowware, picture frames and photo
albums, glassware, woodenware, ceramics, housewares, basket work,
decorative textile items such as wall hangings and banners, music
boxes, and jewelry. Plant activity also includes the occasional
packaging or assembly of products into kits, but no authority is being
sought for activity conducted under FTZ procedures that would result in
a change in tariff classification.
Zone procedures would exempt Rauch from Customs duty payments on
foreign products that are reexported. On its domestic sales, the
company would be able to defer duty payments until merchandise is
shipped from the plant. The application indicates that the savings from
zone procedures would help improve the plant's international
competitiveness.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ
staff has been appointed examiner to investigate the application and
report to the Board.
Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions
(original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive
Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is
October 27, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to November 12, 1998).
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:
U.S. Department of Commerce Export Assistance Center, US&FCS Acting
Director--Mary Delmege, One World Trade Center, #1670, Long Beach,
California 90831
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
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3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20230.
Dated: August 19, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-23236 Filed 8-27-98; 8:45 am]
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