[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 217 (Thursday, November 9, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56566-56567]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-27835]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 68-95]


Foreign-Trade Zone 26--Atlanta, GA; Application for Subzone 
Status, United Technologies Corporation and Precision Components 
International, Inc., Plants (Aircraft Turbine Engine Components) 
Columbus, Georgia

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Georgia Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of FTZ 26, 
requesting special-purpose subzone status for the aircraft turbine 
engine component manufacturing facilities of the United Technologies 
Corporation, Pratt & Whitney Group (Pratt & Whitney) and Precision 
Components International, Inc. (PCI) (a subsidiary of a Pratt & Whitney 
joint venture), located in Columbus, Georgia. 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 November 1, 1995.
    The facilities (700,000 sq.ft., 720 employees) are located on a 
339-acre site at 8801 Macon Road in Columbus (Muscogee County), 
Georgia, some 90 miles southwest of Atlanta. They are used to produce 
titanium disk forgings and airfoils (HTS# 8411.91.90) for the 
compressor components of turbine-type aircraft engines. Pratt & Whitney 
manufactures the disk forgings, and PCI manufactures the airfoils under 
contract for Pratt & Whitney. The airfoils and disk forgings are 
manufactured from titanium alloy sourced from abroad (HTS# 
8108.10.50.45, 8108.90.60.30; duty rate: 15%). The disk forgings and 
airfoils are shipped to other U.S. Pratt & Whitney facilities for 
further processing and/or assembly into aircraft turbine engines, or 
they are exported.
    Zone procedures would exempt Pratt & Whitney and PCI from Customs 
duty payments on the foreign titanium alloy used in export production. 
On domestic sales, the companies would be able to choose the lower duty 
rates that apply to finished aircraft turbine engine components (duty 
free, 3.0%) for the foreign titanium alloy. The application indicates 
that the savings from zone procedures would help improve the 
facilities' international competitiveness. 

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    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 January 8, 1996. Rebuttal comments in 
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be 
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to January 23, 1996).
    A copy of the application and the accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

U.S. Export Assistance Center, Marquis II Tower, Suite 200, 285 
Peachtree Center Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30303.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, 
NW, Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: November 2, 1995.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-27835 Filed 11-8-95; 8:45 am]
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