[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 163 (Wednesday, August 23, 1995)] [Notices] [Page 43760] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 95-20932] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Foreign-Trade Zones Board [Docket 43-95] Foreign-Trade Zone 40--Cleveland, OH; Application for Subzone Status; Motch Corporation Plant (Vertical Turning and Grinding Machinery); Euclid, OH An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) by the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, grantee of FTZ 40, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the manufacturing plant (vertical turning and grinding machines) of the Motch Corporation (Motch) (subsidiary of PITTLER Maschinenfabrik AG, Germany), located in Euclid, Ohio. The application was submitted pursuant to the provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was formally filed on August 11, 1995. The Motch plant (18 acres/200,000 sq.ft.) is located at 1250 East 222nd Street, in Euclid (Cuyahoga County), Ohio. The facility (110 employees) is used to produce vertical turning and grinding (metal working) machines (1995 duty rates: 4.2%, 4.4%), including vertical and front turning centers (work stations), vertical numerical chuckers, horizontal self loaders, vertical and universal grinders (thread rolling machines), and metal working lathes. Components purchased from abroad (between 25% and 45% of total) include electrical components (including electrical power supplies, encoders, relays), motors, printed circuits, bearings (roller/ball), gauges, tachometers, steel angles, ball screws, bushings, co-axial cables, cam rollers, chain sprockets, clutch/couplings, compound glassers, solenoid valves, cooling devices, filters, gears, gibs, gripper pawls, guide rollers, keys, fasteners, covers, springs, stoessel-rams, parts of lathes and thread rolling machines, O rings, safety glass, toothed belts, hydraulic valves, and wipers (1995 duty rate range: free--10.6%). Foreign-origin numerical process controllers would be admitted to the proposed subzone in domestic status (landed duty paid). The finished machines are used in the automotive, aerospace, truck, oil equipment, agricultural equipment, bearing, and heavy equipment manufacturing industries. Up to 50 percent of the finished machines are exported. Zone procedures would exempt Motch from Customs duty payments on the foreign components used in export production. On its domestic sales, Motch would be able to choose the duty rates that apply to finished vertical turning and grinding machines for the foreign components noted above. Zone procedures would also exempt certain merchandise from certain state/local ad valorem inventory taxes. The application indicates that the savings from zone procedures would help improve Motch's international competitiveness. In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ Staff has been designated examiner to investigate the application and report to the Board. Public comment on the application is invited from interested parties. Submissions (original and three copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is October 23, 1995. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period to November 6, 1995. A copy of the application and the accompanying exhibits will be available for public inspection at each of the following locations: U.S. Department of Commerce District Office, Suite 700, Bank One Center, 600 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114, and Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230. Dated: August 16, 1995. John J. Da Ponte, Jr., Executive Secretary. [FR Doc. 95-20932 Filed 8-22-95; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P