[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 167 (Friday, August 28, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45997-45998]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23236]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 41-98]


Foreign-Trade Zone 50--Long Beach, California Application for 
Subzone Status Rauch Industries, Inc. (Distribution of Consumer Goods) 
Mira Loma, California

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Board of Harbor Commissioners, Port of Long Beach, 
grantee of FTZ 50, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the 
consumer goods distribution facility of Rauch Industries, Inc., located 
in Mira Loma, California. The application was submitted pursuant to the 
provisions of 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 August 20, 1998.
    The Rauch facility (880,000 sq. ft. on 42 acres) is located at 
11640 Harrell Street, Mira Loma, California, some 50 miles northeast of 
Long Beach. The facility (56 employees) is used for storage, 
inspection, packaging and distribution of a wide variety of consumer 
products such as table top, giftware and decorative accessories, 
seasonal products, flatware, hollowware, picture frames and photo 
albums, glassware, woodenware, ceramics, housewares, basket work, 
decorative textile items such as wall hangings and banners, music 
boxes, and jewelry. Plant activity also includes the occasional 
packaging or assembly of products into kits, but no authority is being 
sought for activity conducted under FTZ procedures that would result in 
a change in tariff classification.
    Zone procedures would exempt Rauch from Customs duty payments on 
foreign products that are reexported. On its domestic sales, the 
company would be able to defer duty payments until merchandise is 
shipped from the plant. The application indicates that the savings from 
zone procedures would help improve the plant's international 
competitiveness.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ 
staff has been appointed examiner to investigate the application and 
report to the Board.
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
(original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive 
Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is 
October 27, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to November 12, 1998).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce Export Assistance Center, US&FCS Acting 
Director--Mary Delmege, One World Trade Center, #1670, Long Beach, 
California 90831
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room

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3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20230.

    Dated: August 19, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-23236 Filed 8-27-98; 8:45 am]
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