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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 27-94]

 

Foreign-Trade Zone 104--Savannah, GA; Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.; 
Distribution and Processing Facility; Application for Subzone Bulloch 
County, GA

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Savannah Airport Commission, grantee of FTZ 104, 
requesting special-purpose subzone status for a new distribution and 
processing facility of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., located in Bulloch 
County, Georgia, in the Savannah Customs port of entry area. 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 July 15, 1994.
    Wal-Mart is a nationwide discount merchandiser, headquartered in 
Bentonville, Arkansas. The company employs 520,000 people and its total 
sales exceed $67 billion.
    Wal-Mart is constructing a new distribution/processing facility 
(1.5 mil. sq. ft. on 163-acre site) at County Road 204 and Highway 301, 
Statesboro, Georgia, some 45 miles northwest of Savannah. The facility 
will be used to store, test, and distribute a wide range of consumer 
products, some of which are of foreign origin. There will be processing 
activity for some products. The application contains requests for 
authority to assemble stereo systems (duty rate 3.7%) and camera kits 
(duty rate 3.0%) under zone procedures. Items sourced from abroad for 
the stereo assembly operations include: tuners, amplifiers, and 
turntables (duty rate range 4.4%-6.0%). Items sourced abroad for the 
camera kit assembly operations include: camera cases (plastic, leather, 
and other), lenses, and film (duty rate range 3.7%-20.0%).
    Zone procedures would exempt Wal-Mart from Customs duty payments on 
the foreign products that are reexported. It would be able to defer 
Customs duty payments on domestic sales, and choose the finished 
product duty rates on the above noted items processed at the facility. 
The application indicates that zone savings would help improve the 
international competitiveness of the distribution/processing facility.
    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 October 3, 1994. Rebuttal comments in 
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be 
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to October 17, 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, 120 Barnard St., A-107, 
Savannah, Georgia 31401
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: July 22, 1994.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-18785 Filed 8-1-94; 8:45 am]
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