[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 108 (Thursday, June 5, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32532-32533]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-13083]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-42-2014]


Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 183--Austin, Texas, Notification of 
Proposed Production Activity, Flextronics America, LLC, (Automated Data 
Processing Machines), Austin, Texas

    Flextronics America, LLC (Flextronics) submitted a notification of 
proposed production activity to the FTZ Board for its facility in 
Austin, Texas within Subzone 183C. The notification conforming to the 
requirements of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was 
received on May 29, 2014.
    Flextronics already has authority to produce automated data 
processing machines within Subzone 183C. The current request would add 
a finished product as well as foreign status materials/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/
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 Flextronics from 
customs duty payments on the foreign status materials/components used 
in export production. On its domestic sales,

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Flextronics would be able to choose the duty rates during customs entry 
procedures that apply to exhaust subassemblies for automated data 
processing machines (duty-free) for the foreign status materials/
components noted below and in the existing scope of authority. Customs 
duties also could possibly be deferred or reduced on foreign status 
production equipment.
    The materials/components sourced from abroad include: Supports; 
gaskets; rubber rings; lock clamps; nuts; standoffs; pin connectors; 
bushings; holders; backer and button switches; connector brackets; 
housing gaskets; torsion bars; LP covers; spacers; transformers; 
inductors; ferrite EMI filters; wireless Bluetooth[supreg] assemblies; 
cover shielding; WiFi antenna assemblies; solid state drives; 
resistors; flexible printed circuit boards; printed circuit connectors; 
terminals; connectors; integrated circuits; repeaters; power cords; CPU 
stiffener assemblies; filters; and, cables (duty rate ranges from duty-
free to 5.7%).
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
shall be addressed to the Board's Executive Secretary at the address 
below. The closing period for their receipt is July 15, 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 
Board's Web site, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Whiteman at 
[email protected] or (202) 482-0473.

    Dated: June 2, 2014.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-13083 Filed 6-4-14; 8:45 am]
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