[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 59 (Friday, March 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14898-14899]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-8109]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 13-98]


Foreign-Trade Zone 216--Olympia, WA Request for Export Processing 
Authority; Darigold, Inc. Dairy By-Products

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Port of Olympia, grantee of FTZ 216, pursuant to 
Sec. 400.32(b)(1) of the Board's regulations (15 CFR Part 400), 
requesting authority on behalf of Darigold, Inc. (Darigold), to process 
certain dairy by-products for export under FTZ procedures within FTZ 
216. It was formally filed on March 19, 1998.
    Darigold operates a 74,000 square foot dairy product processing 
facility (37 employees) within FTZ 216--Site 13 located at 67 S.W. 
Chehalis Avenue in Chehalis, Washington, for manufacturing/ processing 
a variety of dairy products, such as dry milk and whey, for the U.S. 
market and export. This application requests authority on behalf of 
Darigold to process foreign origin, ex-quota liquid whey permeate (a 
by-product of cheese manufacturing) into dried whey under FTZ 
procedures for export. In this activity, foreign whey permeate (HTSUS 
0404.10.11, duty rate--13%) would be admitted to FTZ 216 to be 
processed (pasteurized,

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evaporated, crystallized, dried) into powdered whey (HTSUS 0404.10.50, 
3.3%). All of the finished powdered whey would be exported in 25 
kilogram bags, and no foreign, ex-quota liquid whey permeate would be 
entered for U.S. consumption.
    FTZ procedures would exempt Darigold from U.S. dairy product quota 
requirements and Customs duty payments on the foreign whey permeate 
used in this export activity. The application indicates that the 
savings from FTZ procedures would help improve the plant's 
international competitiveness.
    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 11, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response 
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted 
during the subsequent 15-day period (to May 26, 1998).
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the following location: Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-
Trade Zones Board, Room 3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street 
& Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: March 19, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-8109 Filed 3-26-98; 8:45 am]
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