[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 129 (Friday, July 7, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31554-31555]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-14279]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B-46-2017]
Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 106--Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
Notification of Proposed Production Activity, Eastman Kodak Company,
(Printing Flexographic Plates), Weatherford, Oklahoma
Eastman Kodak Company (Eastman Kodak) submitted a notification of
proposed production activity to the FTZ Board for its facility in
Weatherford, Oklahoma. The notification conforming to the requirements
of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received on
June 21, 2017.
The request indicates that a separate application for subzone
designation for the Eastman Kodak facility under FTZ 106 will be
submitted. The facilities will be used to produce printing flexographic
plates. Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ activity 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 Eastman Kodak from
customs duty payments on the foreign-status materials/components used
in export production. On its domestic sales, for the foreign-status
materials/components noted below, Eastman
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Kodak would be able to choose the duty rate during customs entry
procedures that apply to: Flexographic finished plates; aluminum
finished printing plates; thermo imaging layer; direct imaging
recording film sheets; and, direct imaging record film rolls (duty
rates range from free to 3.7%). Customs duties also could possibly be
deferred or reduced on foreign-status production equipment.
The materials/components sourced from abroad include: Aging
inhibitor; stabilizer; photopolymerization initiator; resins for
coating; ethanaminium; inhibitor; coating solvent; light stabilizer for
coating; 3H-Indolium; photoinitiators; coatings for plates; aluminum
finished printing plates; flexographic finished plates; mat film
sheets; butadiene polymers; thermoplastic elastomers; plate
manufacturing chemicals; intermediates for production of printing
plates; co-polymers; monomers; propenoic acid; naphthalenesulfonic
acid; urethane acrylate polymers; phonolic resin solutions; foam
interleave sheets; aluminum coils of aluminum not alloyed; aluminum
coils of aluminum alloys; aluminum coils of a thickness not exceeding
0.15mm: of a thickness exceeding 0.01mm; and, aluminum coils of a
thickness exceeding 0.15mm but not exceeding 0.2mm (duty rates range
from free to 6.5%).
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 16, 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 Christopher Wedderburn at
[email protected] or (202) 482-1963.
Dated: July 3, 2017.
Elizabeth Whiteman,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-14279 Filed 7-6-17; 8:45 am]
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