[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: 2016-13712]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-5-2016]


[Authorization of Production Activity, Foreign-Trade Subzone 
279A, Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors, L.L.C. (Shipbuilding), Houma, 
Louisiana

    On February 3, 2016, the Houma-Terrebonne Airport commission, 
grantee of FTZ 279, submitted a notification of proposed production 
activity to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board on behalf of Thoma-Sea 
Marine Constructors, L.L.C., operator of Subzone 279A, in Houma, 
Louisiana.
    The notification was processed in accordance with the regulations 
of the FTZ Board (15 CFR part 400), including notice in the Federal 
Register inviting public comment (81 FR 7500, February 12, 2016). The 
FTZ Board has determined that no further review of the activity is 
warranted at this time. The production activity described in the 
notification is authorized, subject to the FTZ Act and the FTZ Board's 
regulations, including Section 400.14, and the following special 
conditions:

    (1) Any foreign steel mill products admitted to the zone for the 
Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors, L.L.C., activity, including plate, 
angles, shapes, channels, rolled steel stock, bars, pipes and tubes, 
not incorporated into merchandise otherwise classified, and which is 
used in manufacturing, shall be subject to full customs duties in 
accordance with applicable law, unless the Executive Secretary 
determines that the same item is not then being produced by a 
domestic steel mill.
    (2) Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors, L.L.C., shall meet its 
obligation under 15 CFR 400.13(b) by annually advising the FTZ 
Board's Executive Secretary as to significant new contracts with 
appropriate information concerning foreign purchases otherwise 
dutiable, so that the FTZ Board may consider whether any foreign 
dutiable items are being imported for manufacturing in the zone 
primarily because of FTZ procedures and whether the FTZ Board should 
consider requiring customs duties to be paid on such items.

    Dated: June 2, 2016.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-13712 Filed 6-9-16; 8:45 am]
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