[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 98 (Monday, May 20, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 25190]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-12515]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 38-96]


Foreign-Trade Zone 21--Charleston, SC; Request for Manufacturing 
Authority, Quoizel, Inc., (Lighting Fixtures)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the South Carolina State Ports Authority, grantee of FTZ 
21, requesting authority on behalf of Quoizel, Inc., to manufacture 
lighting fixtures under zone procedures within FTZ 21, Site 3, 
Crowfield Corporate Center, Goose Creek, South Carolina. 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 May 8, 1996.
    Quoizel is planning to move its headquarters and manufacturing 
facility to a site located within FTZ 21, Site 3, Crowfield Corporate 
Center by July 1996. The facility (300 employees) will produce lighting 
fixtures for households and commercial markets. Some 60 percent of the 
components are sourced abroad, including lighting fixture parts of 
glass, plastic, brass and steel. Exports will account for some 10 
percent of production.
    Zone procedures would exempt Quoizel from Customs duty payments on 
foreign materials used in manufacturing for export. On domestic sales, 
the company would be able to choose the duty rates that apply to 
lighting fixtures (ranging from 3.7% to 7.6%), rather than the duty 
rates that would otherwise apply to the foreign components (ranging 
from 4.7% to 13.2%). The application indicates that the savings from 
zone procedures would help improve the international competitiveness of 
the Quoizel 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 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 
July 19, 1996. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to August 5, 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, 81 St. Mary St., 
Charleston, South Carolina 29403
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: May 10, 1996.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-12515 Filed 5-17-96; 8:45 am]
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