[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 43 (Tuesday, March 7, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12788-12789]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-04441]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-15-2017]


Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 265--Conroe, Texas; Notification of 
Proposed Production Activity; Bauer Manufacturing LLC dba NEORig 
(Stationary Oil/Gas Drilling Rigs); Conroe, Texas

    The City of Conroe, Texas, grantee of FTZ 265, submitted a 
notification of proposed production activity to the FTZ Board on behalf 
of Bauer Manufacturing LLC dba NEORig (Bauer), located in Conroe, 
Texas. The notification conforming to the requirements of the 
regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received on February 
24, 2017.
    Bauer already has authority to produce pile drivers and leads, 
boring machinery, foundation construction equipment, foundation casings 
and related parts and sub-assemblies, tools and accessories for pile 
drivers, and stationary oil/gas drilling rigs and related subassemblies 
within Site 1 of FTZ 265. 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 described in the submitted 
notification (as described below) and subsequently authorized by the 
FTZ Board.
    Production under FTZ procedures could exempt Bauer from customs 
duty payments on the foreign-status materials/components used in export 
production. On its domestic sales, Bauer would be able to choose the 
duty rates during customs entry procedures that apply to the company's 
finished products previously approved by the FTZ Board (duty rate 
ranges from duty-free to 5%) 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: V-belts 
(without

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textiles); V-belts (with textiles); steel structures for rigs; deadline 
anchors; filters for internal combustion engines; utility winches; hand 
winches; copper, iron and steel non-return check valves; safety/relief 
valves; blowout preventer stacks; tapered roller bearings; spherical 
roller bearings; cylindrical roller bearings; combined ball/roller 
bearings; combined ball and spherical roller bearings; combined ball 
and needle roller bearings; combined ball and cylindrical roller 
beatings; transformers with a capacity not exceeding 1KVA; telephones; 
CCTV systems; potentionmeters; fluorescent discharge lamps; optical 
fiber cables; and, hydraulic power units (duty rate ranges from duty-
free to 6.6%).
    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 April 17, 2017.
    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: March 2, 2017.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-04441 Filed 3-6-17; 8:45 am]
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