[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 249 (Wednesday, December 30, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69067-69068]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-31022]


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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1656]


Approval of Manufacturing Authority; Foreign-Trade Zone 79; 
Tampa, FL; Tampa Ship, LLC (Shipbuilding)

    Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June 
18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u) (the Act), the Foreign-Trade 
Zones Board (the Board) adopts the following Order:
    Whereas, the City of Tampa (Florida), grantee of FTZ 79, has 
requested authority under Section 400.28(a)(2) of the Board's 
regulations on behalf of Tampa Ship, LLC, to construct and repair 
oceangoing vessels under FTZ

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procedures within FTZ 79--Site 5, Tampa, Florida (FTZ Docket 1-2009, 
filed 1-23-2009);
    Whereas, the proposed shipbuilding and repair activity would be 
subject to the ``standard shipyard restriction'' (full customs duties 
paid on steel mill products);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (74 FR 6012, 2-4-2009);
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the 
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
the Board's regulations would be satisfied, and that approval of the 
application would be in the public interest;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby grants authority for the 
construction and repair of oceangoing vessels within FTZ 79 for Tampa 
Ship, LLC, as described in the application and Federal Register notice, 
subject to the Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 
400.28, and the following special conditions:
    1. Any foreign steel mill product admitted to FTZ 79 for the Tampa 
Ship, LLC activity, including plate, angles, shapes, channels, rolled 
steel stock, bars, pipes and tubes, not incorporated into merchandise 
otherwise classified, and which is used in manufacturing, shall be 
subject to customs duties in accordance with applicable law, unless the 
Executive Secretary determines that the same item is not then being 
produced by a domestic steel mill.
    2. Tampa Ship, LLC shall meet its obligation under 15 CFR Sec.  
400.28(a)(3) by annually advising the Board's Executive Secretary as to 
significant new contracts with appropriate information concerning 
foreign purchases otherwise dutiable, so that the Board may consider 
whether any foreign dutiable items are being imported for manufacturing 
in the zone primarily because of FTZ procedures and whether the Board 
should consider requiring customs duties to be paid on such items.
    3. All foreign-origin safety netting (HTSUS 5608.90) for the Tampa 
Ship, LLC activity must be admitted to the zone in privileged foreign 
status (19 CFR 146.41) or domestic (duty-paid) status (19 CFR 146.43).

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 18th day of December 2009.
Ronald K. Lorentzen
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-31022 Filed 12-29-09; 8:45 am]
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