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[FR Doc No: 94-8490]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 13-94]

 

Foreign-Trade Zone 9--Honolulu, HI; Request for Manufacturing 
Authority, Pacific Allied Products (Plastic Containers)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Department of Business, Economic Development & 
Tourism of the State of Hawaii, grantee of FTZ 9, requesting authority 
on behalf of Pacific Allied Products, Ltd., to manufacture plastic 
food/beverage containers under zone procedures within FTZ 9, which 
includes a general-purpose site at the Campbell Industrial Park. 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 March 25, 1994.
    Pacific Allied operates a manufacturing facility at the Campbell 
Industrial Park site. The facility (10 employees) is used to produce 
recyclable plastic containers for food and beverage products. The 
primary inputs are generally sourced abroad, including polyethylene 
terythalate (HTS 3907.60.0010, duty rate 9%+3.1/kilo) and high density 
polyethylene (HTS 3901.20.0000, duty rate 12.5%). The finished 
containers produced under zone procedures would be sold to Hawaiian 
food and beverage processors, whose products are targeted for Hawaiian 
and foreign markets.
    The application requests authority to allow Pacific Allied to 
conduct certain manufacturing under zone procedures. This would allow 
Pacific Allied to choose the duty rate that applies to the plastic 
containers (3%) for the foreign components noted above (duty rates 9.0-
12.5%). The application indicates that the savings from zone procedures 
would help improve the international competitiveness of the Pacific 
Allied facility, and because this would reduce costs for food 
processors located in Hawaii it would also help them compete with 
foreign producers.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ 
Staff has been appointed 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 June 7, 1994. Rebuttal comments in response 
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted 
during the subsequent 15-day period (to June 22, 1994).
    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, 4106 Federal Building, 300 
Ala Moana Blvd., Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th Street & Constitution Avenue 
NW., Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: April 1, 1994.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-8490 Filed 4-7-94; 8:45 am]
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