[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 82 (Tuesday, April 29, 1997)] [Notices] [Page 23218] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 97-11015] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Foreign-Trade Zones Board [Docket A(32b1)-2-97] Foreign-Trade Zone 45--Portland, OR; Request for Export Manufacturing Authority; GranPac Foods, Inc. (Frozen Food Products) An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) by the Port of Portland, grantee of FTZ 45, pursuant to Sec. 400.32(b)(1) of the Board's regulations (15 CFR Part 400), requesting authority on behalf of GranPac Foods, Inc. (GranPac)(a subsidiary of Showa Sangyo Co., Ltd., Japan), for the manufacture/ processing of frozen food products under FTZ procedures for export within FTZ 45. It was formally filed on April 22, 1997. GranPac operates a 275,000 square foot food processing facility (35 employees) within FTZ 45--Site 1 (Rivergate Industrial Park) for the manufacture/processing of a variety of frozen food products, such as entrees, vegetables, soups, and sauces for the U.S. market and export. This application requests authority to allow GranPac to conduct manufacturing/processing under FTZ procedures for export of frozen oriental-style dinner entrees. These products will contain approximately 60 to 70 percent (by value) domestic ingredients. Between 30 and 40 percent of the ingredients will involve foreign sourced unprocessed lamb, beef (quota), pork, and vegetables (mushrooms, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, pea pods) (duty rate range: free--6.6/ kg+9.3%). The foreign-sourced products would be admitted to FTZ 45 under privileged foreign status (19 CFR Sec. 146.41). U.S.-origin inputs include soy sauce, sugar, monosodium glutamate, disodium inoninate and guanylate, succinic acid, potassium sorbate, mirin, sake, sake yeast, fructose, corn syrup, starches, noodles, rice, wheat flour, soybeans, and sesame seed oil. All finished food products made under FTZ procedures would be exported. FTZ procedures would exempt GranPac from U.S. beef quota requirements and Customs duty payments on the foreign ingredients used in the export activity. Full duties and beef quota requirements would apply to any foreign status waste products that would be entered from FTZ 45 for U.S. consumption. The operation would continue to be subject to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) production regulations. The application indicates that the savings from FTZ procedures would help improve the facility'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 June 30, 1997. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to July 14, 1997). 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 and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230. Dated: April 21, 1997 John J. Da Ponte, Jr., Executive Secretary. [FR Doc. 97-11015 Filed 4-28-97; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P