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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 689]

 

Extension of Subzone Status; FTZ Subzone 2G Equitable Shipyards 
Trinity Marine Group, Inc. (Shipbuilding), New Orleans, LA

    Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of 
June 18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), the Foreign-Trade 
Zones Board (the Board) adopts the following Order.

    Whereas, in 1992, the Board of Harbor Commissioners of the Port of 
New Orleans, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 2, was authorized temporary 
subzone status by the Foreign-Trade Zones Board for the Equitable 
Shipyards facility in New Orleans, Louisiana (Subzone 2G) (for a period 
ending April 1, 1994) (Board Order 573, 57 FR 13695, 4-17-92; Board 
Order 635, 58 FR 25606, 4-27-93);
    Whereas, in 1993, further application was made by the Board of 
Commissioners for an indefinite extension of said subzone status (FTZ 
Docket 2-93, 1-21-93; Federal Register notice invited public comment, 
58 FR 7528, 2-8-93); and,
    Whereas, upon review, the Board has found that the requirements of 
the FTZ Act and Board's regulations would be satisfied, and that 
approval of the application for the indefinite extension of subzone 
status would be in the public interest if approval were given subject 
to the standard shipyard restriction on foreign steel mill products now 
in effect for the facility;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby approves the application for 
extension of subzone status, subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's 
regulations, including Sec. 400.28, and subject to the following 
special conditions:

    1. Any foreign steel mill products admitted to the subzone, 
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, if the same item 
is then being produced by a domestic steel mill; and,
    2. In addition to the annual report, Trinity Marine Group shall 
advise the Board's Executive Secretary (Sec. 400.28(a)(3)) 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 subzone primarily because of subzone status and 
whether the Board should consider requiring Customs duties to be 
paid on such items.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of March 1994.
Susan G. Esserman,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Chairman, 
Committee of Alternates, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 94-8379 Filed 4-6-94; 8:45 am]
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