[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 66 (Tuesday, April 7, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 16961]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-9096]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 966]


Grant of Authority for Subzone Status, Halter Marine, Inc. 
(Shipbuilding), Lockport, LA

    Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June 
18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) adopts the following Order:
    Whereas, by an Act of Congress approved June 18, 1934, an Act ``To 
provide for the establishment * * * of foreign-trade zones in ports of 
entry of the United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce, 
and for other purposes,'' as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u) (the FTZ Act), 
the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) is authorized to grant to 
qualified corporations the privilege of establishing foreign-trade 
zones in or adjacent to U.S. Customs ports of entry;
    Whereas, the Board's regulations (15 CFR Part 400) provide for the 
establishment of special-purpose subzones when existing zone facilities 
cannot serve the specific use involved;
    Whereas, an application from the South Louisiana Port Commission, 
grantee of FTZ 124, for authority to establish special-purpose subzone 
status for the Halter Marine, Inc., shipyard in Lockport, Louisiana, 
was filed by the Board on July 16, 1997, and notice inviting public 
comment was given in the Federal Register (FTZ Docket 60-97, 62 FR 
39808, 7-24-97); and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the 
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
Board's regulations would be satisfied, and that approval of the 
application would be in the public interest if approval were given 
subject to the standard shipyard restriction on foreign steel mill 
products;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby grants authority for subzone 
status at the Halter Marine, Inc., shipyard in Lockport, Louisiana 
(Subzone 124G), at the location described in the application, subject 
to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations, including Sec. 400.28, and 
subject to the following special conditions:
    1. Any foreign steel mill products admitted to the subzone, 
including plate, angles, shapes, channels, rolled steel stock, bars, 
pipes and tubes, not incorporated into merchandise otherwise 
classified, and which is used in manufacturing, shall be subject to 
Customs duties in accordance with applicable law, if the same item is 
then being produced by a domestic steel mill; and,
    2. In addition to the annual report, Halter Marine, Inc., shall 
advise the Board's Executive Secretary (Sec. 400.28(a)(3)) as to 
significant new contracts with appropriate information concerning 
foreign purchases otherwise dutiable, so that the Board may consider 
whether any foreign dutiable items are being imported for manufacturing 
in the subzone primarily because of subzone status and whether the 
Board should consider requiring Customs duties to be paid on such 
items.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 30th day of March 1998.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

    Attest:
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-9096 Filed 4-6-98; 8:45 am]
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