[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 189 (Wednesday, September 30, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52240-52241]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-26213]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 1001]
Approval of Manufacturing Activity Within Foreign-Trade Zone 92
Pascagoula, MS; Friede Goldman International, Inc. (Shipbuilding/
Offshore Drilling Platforms)
Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of
June 18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u) (the Act), the
Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) adopts the following Order:
Whereas, the Greater Gulfport/Biloxi Foreign Trade Zone, Inc,
grantee of FTZ 92, has requested authority under Sec. 400.32(b)(1) of
the Board's regulations on behalf of Friede Goldman International, Inc.
and its subsidiary, HAM Marine, Inc., to manufacture, refurbish, and
repair ships, offshore oil and gas drilling rigs, and other marine
vessels under zone procedures within FTZ 92, Pascagoula, Mississippi
(filed 3-30-98, FTZ Docket 15-98);
Whereas, pursuant to Sec. 400.32(b)(1), the Commerce Department's
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration has the authority to act
for the Board in making such decisions on new manufacturing/processing
activity under certain circumstances, including situations where the
proposed activity is the same, in terms of products involved, as
activity recently approved by the Board (Sec. 400.32(b)(1)(i)); and,
Whereas, the FTZ Staff has reviewed the proposal, taking into
account the
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criteria of Sec. 400.31, and the Executive Secretary has recommended
approval;
Now, therefore, the Assistant Secretary for Import Administration,
acting for the Board pursuant to Sec. 400.32(b)(1), concurs in the
recommendation and hereby approves the request subject to the Act and
the Board's regulations, including Sec. 400.28, and further subject to
the following conditions: (1) any foreign steel mill products admitted
to FTZ 92 for the Friede Goldman International, Inc./HAM Marine Inc.,
activity, including 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, Friede Goldman International, Inc./HAM Marine, 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 zone 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 September 1998.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration;
Alternate Chairman; Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
Attest:
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-26213 Filed 9-29-98; 8:45 am]
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