[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 22 (Thursday, February 1, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 3669]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-1999]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 7-96]


Foreign-Trade Zone 75--Phoenix, AZ, Application for Subzone 
Status, Abbott Manufacturing, Inc., Plant (Infant Formula, Adult 
Nutritional Products) Casa Grande, Arizona

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the City of Phoenix, grantee of FTZ 75, requesting 
special-purpose subzone status for export activity at the infant 
formula and adult nutritional products manufacturing plant of Abbott 
Manufacturing, Inc., (AMI) (a subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories, Inc.), 
located in Casa Grande, Arizona. 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 January 22, 1996.
    The AMI plant (590,000 sq.ft. on 161 acres) is located at 1250 West 
Maricopa Highway, Casa Grande (Pinal County), Arizona, approximately 50 
miles south of Phoenix. The facility (340 employees) is used to produce 
milk and sugar-based infant formula and adult nutritional products for 
export and the domestic market; however, zone procedures would be used 
only for production for export. The production process involves 
blending foreign, ex-quota milk powder and foreign, ex-quota sugar with 
domestically-sourced oils, soy isolates, vitamins and minerals, and EZO 
ends. Other foreign-sourced items that may be used in the export-
blending activity include: cocoa powder, pharmaceutical grade fat 
emulsions, vitamins and minerals, and caseinates. All foreign-origin 
milk and sugar would be re-exported as finished blended products.
    Zone procedures would exempt AMI from quota requirements and 
Customs duty payments on the foreign milk and sugar products used in 
the export activity. The application indicates that subzone status 
would help improve the plant'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 April 1, 1996. Rebuttal comments in 
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be 
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to April 16, 1996).
    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, Phoenix Plaza, Suite 970, 
2901 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85012
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, 
NW., Washington, DC 20230-0002.

    Dated: January 24, 1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-1999 Filed 1-31-96; 8:45 am]
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