[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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