[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 201 (Thursday, October 17, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 64090]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-26412]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 41-2002]
Foreign-Trade Zone 182--Fort Wayne, IN, Application For Foreign-
Trade Subzone Status, Flint Ink North America Corporation (Pigments,
Inks, and Varnish Products), Warsaw, IN
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the City of Fort Wayne, Indiana, grantee of FTZ 182,
requesting special-purpose subzone status for the manufacturing and
distribution facilities (pigments, inks, and varnish products) of Flint
Ink North America Corporation (Flint Ink) in Warsaw, Indiana. The
application was submitted pursuant to 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 October 7, 2002.
The Flint Ink facilities are located at two sites in Warsaw: (1)
3025 Old West Road 30 (33,520 square feet of enclosed space on 9.65
acres); and (2) 1406 West Winona Avenue (26,670 square feet of enclosed
space on 16.69 acres). The facilities (28 employees) are used to
manufacture, test, package, and warehouse pigments, inks, and varnish
products primarily for use by the graphic arts industry.
Foreign-sourced materials account for approximately 10 to 50
percent of the finished-product value of Flint Ink's current products,
and may include items from the following categories: Petroleum oils and
mineral oils, distillates; hydrogen chloride and chlorosulfuric acid;
sodium and potassium hydroxides; chlorides, chloride oxides, chloride
hydroxides, bromides, bromide oxides, iodides and iodide oxides;
nitrites and nitrates; acyclic alcohols and their derivatives; phenols
and phenol-alcohols; ketones, quinines, and their derivatives;
polycarboxylic acids and their derivatives; carboxylic acids and their
derivatives; amine function compounds; carboxyamide-function compounds
and amide-function compounds of carbonic acid; heterocyclic compounds,
and nucleic acids and their salts; nucleic acids and their salts, and
other heterocyclic compounds; synthetic organic coloring matter,
preparations based thereon, and synthetic organic products used as
fluorescent brightening agents or luminophores; other coloring matter;
printing ink, writing or drawing ink, and other inks; artificial waxes
and prepared waxes; rosin, resin, and derivatives thereof; reaction
initiators, reaction accelerators, and catalytic preparations; polymers
of vinyl chloride or other halogenated olefins in primary forms;
polymers of vinyl acetate or other vinyl esters, and other vinyl
polymers, in primary forms; petroleum resins, coumarone-indene resins,
polyterpenes, polysulfides, polysulfones, and other products in primary
forms; and cellulose and its chemical derivatives in primary forms.
Zone procedures would allow the company to choose the duty rates
that apply to the finished products (the primary initial finished
product has a duty rate of 1.8% ad valorem; potential finished products
have rates ranging from duty-free to 9.2%) rather than the duty rates
that would otherwise apply to the foreign-sourced materials noted above
(duty-free to 9.2%; average of 7%). This savings from inverted tariffs
would be the primary benefit derived from subzone status. FTZ
procedures would also exempt Flint Ink from Customs duty payments on
foreign materials used in production for export. In addition, Flint Ink
states that it would realize logistical/procedural and other benefits.
FTZ status may also make a site eligible for benefits provided under
state/local programs. The application indicates that the savings from
zone procedures will 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 is invited from interested parties.
Submissions (original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's
Executive Secretary at one of the following addresses:
1. Submissions Via Express/Package Delivery Services: Foreign-
Trade-Zones Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court
Building--Suite 4100W, 1099 14th St. NW., Washington, DC 20005; or
2. Submissions Via the U.S. Postal Service: Foreign-Trade-Zones
Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, FCB--Suite 4100W, 1401 Constitution
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20230.
The closing period for their receipt is December 16, 2002. Rebuttal
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period to December 31,
2002.
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at the Office of the Foreign-Trade
Zones Board's Executive Secretary at address Number 1 listed above, and
at the U.S. Department of Commerce Export Assistance Center, 11405
North Pennsylvania Street, Suite 106, Carmel, IN 46032.
Dated: October 10, 2002.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-26412 Filed 10-16-02; 8:45 am]
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