[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 158 (Monday, August 17, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43904-43905]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-22064]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 996]


Hewlett-Packard Company (Computer and Related Electronic 
Products), San Jose, CA; Grant of Authority for Subzone Status

    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 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 City of San Jose, California, 
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 18, for authority to establish special-
purpose subzone status at the computer and electronic products 
manufacturing facilities of the Hewlett-Packard Company, located at 
sites in the San Jose, California, area, was filed by the Board on June 
19, 1997, and notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (FTZ Docket 52-97, 62 FR 35151, 6/30/97; amended 8/25/97); 
and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the 
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
the Board's regulations are satisfied, and that approval of the 
application, as amended, is in the public interest;
    Now, Therefore, the Board hereby grants authority for subzone 
status at the computer and related electronic

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products manufacturing facilities of the Hewlett-Packard Company, 
located in the San Jose, California, area (Subzone 18D), at the 
locations described in the application, and subject to the FTZ Act and 
the Board's regulations, including Sec. 400.28.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 31st day of July 1998.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

    Attest:
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-22064 Filed 8-14-98; 8:45 am]
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