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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 17-94]

 

Foreign-Trade Zone 84--Houston, TX; Application for Subzone 
Status Microwave Networks, Inc. (Microwave Radios)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Port of Houston Authority, grantee of FTZ 84, 
requesting special-purpose subzone status for the microwave radio 
manufacturing plant of Microwave Networks, Inc. (MNI), located in 
Houston, Texas. 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 April 29, 1994.
    The MNI plant is located at 10795 Rockley Road, in Harris County, 
Houston, Texas. The facility (3.5 acres, 240 employees) is used to 
manufacture microwave radios for use in cellular and other wireless 
communication networks (duty rates: 2.4% to 6%). Foreign-origin 
materials used in the manufacturing process (some 70% of total) 
include: Electronic transformers, multiplexors, antennnas, 
transmitters/receivers, capacitors, resistors, printed circuits, 
diodes, transistors, integrated circuits, insulated wire, coaxial 
cable, flexible RF waveguide and waveguide parts (duty rates: duty-free 
to 10%). The application indicates that privileged foreign status (19 
CFR 146.41) would be elected on all foreign merchandise admitted to the 
subzone.
    Zone procedures would exempt MNI from Customs duty payments on the 
foreign materials used in export production (90% of output). On 
domestic sales, MNI would be able to defer Customs duty payments until 
the finished products leave the plant. Foreign materials and finished 
products held for export would be eligible for an exemption from 
certain state and local ad valorem taxes. The application indicates 
that the savings from zone procedures would help improve MNI's 
international competitiveness.
    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 July 15, 1994. Rebuttal comments in 
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be 
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period August 1, 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 #1 Allen Center, 500 
Dallas, Suite 1160 Houston, TX 77002.
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: May 9, 1994.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-11868 Filed 5-13-94; 8:45 am]
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