[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 49 (Friday, March 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12439-12440]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-6564]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket No. 12-98]


Foreign-Trade Zone 125--South Bend, Indiana; Application for 
Foreign-Trade Subzone Status: Bayer Corporation (Aspirin Products), 
Elkhart, Indiana

    Application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the St. Joseph County Airport Authority, grantee of FTZ 
125, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the pharmaceutical 
manufacturing facility (aspirin products) of Bayer Corporation (Bayer), 
located in Elkhart, Indiana. The application was submitted pursuant to 
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 
March 4, 1998.
    The Bayer facility (1 building/333,194 sq. ft.) is located at 1884 
Miles Avenue in Elkhart (St. Joseph County), Indiana. The facility (400 
employees) is used for the manufacture of over-the-counter cold 
medicines and antacid products containing aspirin. The primary material 
input is bulk aspirin--ortho-acetylsalicylic acid (HTSUS 2918.22.10), 
which the company currently purchases from a domestic source. Bayer is 
now planning to purchase bulk aspirin from abroad (up to some 450,000 
kg./yr.).
    Zone procedures would enable Bayer to choose the lower duty rate 
that applies to the finished products (duty-free) instead of the duty 
rate that would otherwise apply to foreign bulk aspirin (duty rate--
8.7%). The application indicates that the savings from zone procedures 
would help improve the plant's 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 May 12, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response 
to material

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submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the 
subsequent 15-day period to May 27, 1998. A copy of the application and 
the accompanying exhibits will be available for public inspection at 
each of the following locations:

Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20230
U.S. Department of Commerce Export Assistance Center 55 West Monroe 
St., Suite 2440, Chicago, Illinois 60603.

    Dated: March 16, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-6564 Filed 3-12-98; 8:45 am]
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