[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 89 (Friday, May 8, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 26539]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-11219]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B-29-2015]
Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 148--Knoxville, Tennessee; Notification
of Proposed Production Activity; CoLinx, LLC (Bearing Units);
Crossville, Tennessee
The Industrial Development Board of Blount County and the Cities of
Alcoa and Maryville, Tennessee, grantee of FTZ 148, submitted a
notification of proposed production activity to the FTZ Board on behalf
of CoLinx, LLC (CoLinx), located in Crossville, Tennessee. The
notification conforming to the requirements of the regulations of the
FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received on April 29, 2015.
The CoLinx facilities are located within Sites 2, 6 and 7 of FTZ
148. The facilities are used for the distribution and assembly of kits
of bearing products. Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ activity 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 CoLinx from customs
duty payments on the foreign status components used in export
production. On its domestic sales, CoLinx would be able to choose the
duty rates during customs entry procedures that apply to: Mounted unit
roller assemblies (housed, spherical roller bearing units); and,
mounted unit ball assemblies (housed ball bearing units) (duty rate
4.5%) for the foreign status inputs noted below. Customs duties also
could possibly be deferred or reduced on foreign status production
equipment.
The components and materials sourced from abroad include: Mineral
oil based, lithium soap thickened bearing grease; double row insert
bearings (spherical rollers), nitrile rubber contact lip seals with
spring-loaded lips; and, plastic end caps for bearing housings (duty
rate ranges from 2.5% to 1.3[cent]/kg + 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 June 17, 2015.
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: April 30, 2015.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-11219 Filed 5-7-15; 8:45 am]
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