[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 66 (Thursday, April 6, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 17514]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-8512]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 10-95]


Foreign-Trade Zone 143, Sacramento, CA; Application for Subzone 
Status C. Ceronix, Inc. (Video Monitors), Auburn, CA

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Port of Sacramento, grantee of FTZ 143, requesting 
special-purpose subzone status at the gaming/ recreational machine 
video monitor manufacturing plant of C. Ceronix, Inc. (Ceronix), in 
Auburn, California (Sacramento 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 March 28, 1995.
    The Ceronix plant (45,000 sq. ft. on 3.6 acres) is located at 12265 
Locksley Lane, Auburn, California, some 35 miles east of Sacramento. 
The facility (46 employees) is used to manufacture hi-resolution (VGA) 
video monitors for electronic gaming and recreational machines (e.g., 
bowling tallies, lottery, poker). Foreign-sourced components (approx. 
60% of product value) include printed circuit boards, transformers, 
capacitors, resistors, semiconductor devices, integrated circuits, 
certain cathode ray tubes, conductors, fasteners and miscellaneous 
items for gaming/recreational machines. The cathode ray tubes are 
limited to those classified under HTS 8540.30 (duty rate--5.4%). The 
finished products are classified under HTS headings for gaming/
recreational machines (HTS 9504--duty free) or data processing machines 
(HTS 8471--duty rates: 0-4.4%). Some 30 percent of the finished 
products are exported.
    Zone procedures will exempt Ceronix from Customs duty payment on 
materials used for its export production. On its domestic sales, the 
company would be able to choose the duty rate applicable to finished 
products (0-4.4%) rather than the rates otherwise applicable to 
components (duty rates: 0-9.8%). The application indicates that zone 
savings will help improve the plant's international competitiveness.
    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 is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
(original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive 
Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is 
June 6, 1995. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to June 20, 1995).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

U.S. Customs Service, Enforcement Office, P.O. Box 214666, Sacramento, 
CA 95821
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: March 30, 1995.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-8512 Filed 4-5-95; 8:45 am]
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