[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 230 (Thursday, November 30, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61528-61529]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-29266]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 76-95]


Foreign-Trade Zone 41--Milwaukee, WI; Application To Remove Time 
Limit Western Publishing Company, Inc. (Children's Books); Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin Area

    A request has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the 
Board) by the Foreign Trade Zone of Wisconsin, Ltd., grantee of FTZ 41, 
requesting removal of the time limit contained in Board Order 639 which 
authorized Western Publishing Company, Inc., to conduct processing 
activity within FTZ 41, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 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 November 20, 1995.
    The FTZ Board authorized Western Publishing Company, Inc., to 
assemble children's books under zone procedures within FTZ 41 in 1993 
subject to a 3-year time limit (Board Order 639, 58 FR 30144, 5/26/93). 
The activity involves attaching foreign-sourced sound pads to 
domestically printed children's books.
    Zone procedures exempt Western Publishing from the payment of 
Customs duties on foreign merchandise used in books assembled for 
export. On its domestic sales, zone procedures allow the company to 
choose the duty-free rate that applies to books instead of 

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the duty rate that would otherwise apply to sound pads (3.9%). The 
company states that the removal of the time limit would allow Western 
Publishing to continue to use zone procedures to maintain the U.S. 
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 
January 29, 1996. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to February 13, 1996).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce District Office, Room 596, 517 E. Wisconsin 
Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: November 21, 1995.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-29266 Filed 1130-95; 8:45 am]
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