[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 236 (Monday, December 9, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 73824]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-29334]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B-101-2013]
Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 230--Piedmont Triad Area, North
Carolina, Notification of Proposed Production Activity, Sonoco Display
and Packaging (Kitting--Gift Sets), Rural Hall and Winston-Salem, North
Carolina
The Piedmont Triad Partnership, grantee of FTZ 230, submitted a
notification of proposed production activity to the FTZ Board on behalf
of Sonoco Display and Packaging for its facilities located in Rural
Hall and Winston-Salem, North Carolina within FTZ 230. The notification
conforming to the requirements of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15
CFR 400.22) was received on November 19, 2013.
Sonoco Display and Packaging already has authority to produce
various cosmetic and personal hygiene gift sets within Sites 24--27 of
FTZ 230. The current request would add deodorant/antiperspirant and
body wash gift sets and certain foreign components to the scope of
authority. Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), additional FTZ authority would
be limited to the specific foreign-status materials and components and
specific finished products described in the submitted notification (as
described below) and subsequently authorized by the FTZ Board.
Production under FTZ procedures could exempt Sonoco Display and
Packaging from customs duty payments on the foreign status components
used in export production. On its domestic sales, Sonoco Display and
Packaging would be able to choose the duty rates during customs entry
procedures that apply to deodorant/antiperspirant and body wash gift
sets (free, 4.9%) for the foreign status inputs noted below and in the
existing scope of authority. Customs duties also could possibly be
deferred or reduced on foreign status production equipment.
The components sourced from abroad include: plastic boxes and
cases; train cases, vanity cases, component bags, wallets, various
hand-held bags, and handbags and clutches of textile materials (HTSUS
Subheadings 4202.12, 4202.22, 4202.29, 4202.32, 4202.92, and 4202.99);
component bags of plaited natural materials; set boxes; glass trays;
plush items (e.g., stuffed toys, animals); eyelash curlers; and,
perfume pursers (duty rate ranges from free to 20%). Inputs included in
certain textile categories (classified within HTSUS Subheadings
4202.12, 4202.22, 4202.32, and 4202.92) will be admitted to the zone
under domestic (duty-paid) status or privileged foreign status (19 CFR
146.41), thereby precluding inverted tariff benefits on such items.
Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions
shall be addressed to the FTZ Board's Executive Secretary at the
address below. The closing period for their receipt is January 21,
2014.
A copy of the notification will be available for public inspection
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
Room 21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the
FTZ Board's Web site, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
For further information, contact Pierre Duy at [email protected]
(202) 482-1378.
Dated: December 2, 2013.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-29334 Filed 12-6-13; 8:45 am]
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