[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 205 (Tuesday, October 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54765-54766]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-27051]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 73-96]


Foreign-Trade Zone 198--Volusia County, Florida; Request for 
Manufacturing Authority, Capo, Inc. (Sunglasses/Reading Glasses)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the County of Volusia, Florida, grantee of FTZ 198, 
pursuant to Sec. 400.32(b)(2) of the Board's regulations (15 CFR Part 
400), requesting authority on behalf of Capo, Inc., to manufacture 
sunglasses/reading glasses (HTS #9004.10) under FTZ procedures. It was 
formally filed on October 9, 1996.
    Capo operates a facility within FTZ 198 that manufactures 
sunglasses and reading glasses. Presently, the company uses FTZ 
procedures at its facility for the storage of inventory. This 
application requests authority for allowing Capo to also conduct its 
assembly activity under FTZ procedures.
    Most components are sourced from abroad (up to 95%), including: 
metal frames, plastic frames, sunglass lenses, imitation leather cords, 
man-made fiber

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cords, cloth cords, cases, and lens stickers (duty rate range: 3.4%-
19.5%).
    Zone procedures would exempt Capo from Customs duty payments on the 
foreign components used in export production. On its domestic sales, it 
would be able to choose the duty rates that apply to finished 
sunglasses/reading glasses (5.1%) for the foreign components noted 
above. The company is also seeking an exemption from Customs duties on 
scrap generated in the production process. The application indicates 
that the savings from zone procedures would 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 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 November 21, 1996. Rebuttal comments in 
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be 
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to December 6, 1996).
    A copy of the application and the accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at the following location: 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: October 11, 1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-27051 Filed 10-21-96; 8:45 am]
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