[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 133 (Tuesday, July 12, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 45123]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-16463]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-45-2016]


Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 189--Kent, Ottawa and Muskegon Counties, 
Michigan; Notification of Proposed Production Activity; Southern 
Lithoplate, Inc. (Aluminum Printing Plates); Grand Rapids, Michigan

    The KOM Foreign Trade Zone Authority, grantee of FTZ 189, submitted 
a notification of proposed production activity to the FTZ Board on 
behalf of Southern Lithoplate, Inc. (SLP), located in Grand Rapids, 
Michigan. The notification conforming to the requirements of the 
regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received on July 6, 
2016.
    SLP already has authority for the production of aluminum offset 
printing plates for the printing industry within Site 10 of FTZ 189. 
The current request would add 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 SLP from customs duty 
payments on the foreign-status materials/components used in export 
production. On its domestic sales, SLP would be able to choose the duty 
rate during customs entry procedures that applies to aluminum printing 
plates (duty rate 3.7%) 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 the following 
chemicals for photographic purposes: organic dyes; photoinitiators; 
photosensitizing dyes; polymers; triazine photoinitiators; pigments in 
solvent; acrylate polymers in solvent; novolak polymers in solvent; 
anion surfactants; emulsifiers in water; acrylate monomers; acrylic 
polymers; polyvinyl alcohols; acrylate oligomers in solvent; 
emulsifiers; polyvinylphenol; and, carboxymethyl cellulose (duty rate 
ranges from free to 6.5%). The request indicates that inputs classified 
under HTSUS Subheadings 3204.17, 3208.20 and 3208.90 will be admitted 
to the zone in privileged foreign status (19 CFR 146.41) or domestic 
status (19 CFR 146.43), thereby precluding inverted tariff benefits on 
such items.
    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 August 22, 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 
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: July 7, 2016.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-16463 Filed 7-11-16; 8:45 am]
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