[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 186 (Friday, September 25, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57785-57786]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-24453]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B-63-2015]
Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 33--Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Notification of Proposed Production Activity, DNP Imagingcomm America
Corporation, Subzone 33E, (Thermal Transfer Ribbon Master Rolls), Mount
Pleasant, Pennsylvania
DNP Imagingcomm America Corporation (DNP), operator of Subzone 33E,
submitted a notification of proposed production activity to the FTZ
Board for its facility within Subzone 33E, located in Mount Pleasant,
Pennsylvania. The notification conforming to the requirements of the
regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received on September
4, 2015.
DNP already has authority to produce thermal transfer ribbon (TTR)
and monochrome TTR printer rolls using certain foreign-sourced
components within Subzone 33E. The current request would add the
production of TTR master rolls using foreign-sourced rolls of
polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
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film to the scope of authority. Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), the
additional FTZ activity would be limited to the specific foreign-status
material and specific finished product described in the submitted
notification (as described below) and subsequently authorized by the
FTZ Board.
Production under FTZ procedures could exempt DNP from customs duty
payments on the foreign-status rolls of PET film (4.2% duty rate) used
in export (an estimated 40 percent of shipments). On its domestic
sales, DNP would be able to choose the duty rate during customs entry
procedures that applies to TTR master rolls (duty rate 3.7%) for the
foreign-status PET film. Customs duties also could possibly be deferred
or reduced on foreign-status production equipment.
The request notes that DNP's proposed activity would involve PET
film that is subject to antidumping/countervailing duty (AD/CVD)
orders. The FTZ Board's regulations (15 CFR 400.14(e)) require that
merchandise subject to AD/CVD orders be admitted to the zone in
privileged foreign status (19 CFR 146.41). DNP's request indicates that
any PET film subject to an AD/CVD order, proceeding, or suspension of
liquidation under AD/CVD procedures would be used only in production
for export (no TTR master rolls made from PET film subject to AD/CVD
orders would be shipped for U.S. consumption).
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 November 4,
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
FTZ Board's Web site, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diane Finver at [email protected]
or (202) 482-1367.
Dated: September 17, 2015.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-24453 Filed 9-24-15; 8:45 am]
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