[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 112 (Friday, June 10, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 37570]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-13706]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-39-2016]


Foreign-Trade Zone 119--Minneapolis, Minnesota; Notification of 
Proposed Production Activity; SICK, Inc.; Subzone 119G; (Electronic 
Industrial Sensors, Encoders, Optical Readers and Monitoring Systems); 
Savage, Minnesota

    The Greater Metropolitan Area Foreign Trade Zone Commission, 
grantee of FTZ 119, submitted a notification of proposed production 
activity to the FTZ Board on behalf of SICK, Inc. (SICK), operator of 
Subzone 119G, at its facility located in Savage, Minnesota. The 
notification conforming to the requirements of the regulations of the 
FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received on May 17, 2016.
    SICK already has authority to produce photo-electronic industrial 
automation sensors within Subzone 119G. The current request would add 
new finished products (encoders, zone control sensors, proximity 
sensors, integrated optical readers, data process monitoring/reporting 
systems) and certain foreign components and materials to the scope of 
authority. Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ activity would be limited 
to the specific foreign-status 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 SICK from customs duty 
payments on the foreign status components and materials used in export 
production. On its domestic sales, SICK would be able to choose the 
duty rates during customs entry procedures that apply to photo-
electronic industrial automation sensors, encoders, zone control 
sensors, proximity sensors, integrated optical readers, and data 
process monitoring/reporting systems (free, 2.6% or 2.7%) 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 and materials sourced from abroad are: adhesives of 
polymers; plastic labels; plastic gaskets/washers/seals; corrugated 
cartons; steel screws/bolts/nuts/washers; steel and brass nuts/bolts/
screws; steel brackets; inductors; electrical connectors; and, metal 
clamps and brackets (duty rate ranges from free to 6.5%).
    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 July 20, 2016.
    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] 
or (202) 482-1378.

    Dated: June 2, 2016.
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-13706 Filed 6-9-16; 8:45 am]
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