[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 77 (Tuesday, April 22, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19545-19546]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-10393]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 29-97]


Application for Subzone Status, Conair Corporation Plant (Small 
Appliances, Beauty Care Products, Personal Telephones) East Windsor, NJ

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by Mercer County, grantee of FTZ 200, requesting subzone 
status for the warehousing/distribution and repair facility of Conair 
Corporation (Conair),

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East Windsor, New Jersey. 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 April 11, 1997.
    The Conair facility (500,000 sq. ft. on 52-acres) is located at 150 
Milford Road in East Windsor, New Jersey. Operations conducted under 
FTZ procedures at the facility will include warehousing/distribution, 
testing, repackaging, and service/repair of a variety of consumer 
products, and in some cases this activity will involve reassembly and a 
change in Customs classification of incoming foreign components. 
Finished products include: electric personal care appliances (e.g., 
hair dryers/trimmers, massagers, heating pads, toothbrushes); beauty 
care products; small kitchen appliances/cookware, (e.g., food 
processors/mixers/grinders, pasta makers, toasters, blenders, coffee/
espresso makers); and consumer telephones and answering machines. 
Foreign components that would be used in reassembly/service activity 
include: plastic handles and knobs, fasteners, knives, fans, electric 
motors, generators, transformers, telephone components, microphones, 
loudspeakers, earphones, resistors, printed circuits, switches, diodes, 
integrated circuits, conductors, insulators, and timing devices.
    Zone procedures will exempt Conair from Customs duty payments on 
the foreign items used in its exports. On its domestic sales, the 
company will be able to defer Customs duty payments, and, on the 
service/repair activity that involves the use of foreign components, 
the company will be able to choose the lower Customs duty rates that 
might apply to finished products (range: duty-free--8.5%). The rates on 
the foreign parts used at the facility range from duty-free to 12.5 
percent. The applicant indicates that zone procedures will help improve 
the international competitiveness of the company's U.S. operations.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ 
staff has been appointed 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 23, 1997. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to July 7, 1997).
    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, Export Assistance Center, 3131 Princeton 
Pike, Building 6, Suite 100, Trenton, New Jersey 08648
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce 14th & Pennsylvania Aves., NW, 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: April 16, 1997.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-10393 Filed 4-21-97; 8:45 am]
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