[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 114 (Tuesday, June 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32023-32024]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-15179]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 30-99]


Foreign-Trade Zone 46--Cincinnati, OH, Area Application for Zone 
Expansion and Request for Manufacturing Authority Milacron, Inc. 
(Plastics Processing Machinery)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Greater Cincinnati Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., grantee 
of FTZ 46, requesting authority to expand its zone, and requesting, on 
behalf of Milacron, Inc., authority to manufacture plastics processing 
machinery and related parts under FTZ procedures within FTZ 46, 
Cincinnati, Ohio, area, adjacent to the Cincinnati Customs port of 
entry. 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 
June 3, 1999.
    FTZ 46 was approved in 1979 (Board Order 141, 44 FR 4003, 1-19-79) 
and relocated in 1994 (Board Order 720, 59 FR 66891, 12-28-94) to a 35-
acre site at 175 Progress Place, Springdale (Hamilton County), Ohio. In 
1997 the zone was expanded to include a second, non-contiguous 122-acre 
site located at 4701 Marburg Avenue in Cincinnati (Board Order 943, 62 
FR 67044, 12-23-97).
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the zone by 
adding three sites: proposed Site 3 (460 acres, manufacturing, 
warehouse)--Milacron, Inc., Clermont County Industrial Park, 4165 Half 
Acre Road, Batavia (Clermont County), Ohio, about 25 miles east of 
Cincinnati; proposed Site 4 (490 acres, manufacturing)--Milacron, Inc., 
Brown County Industrial Park, 418 West Main Street, Mt. Orab (Brown 
County), Ohio, about 10 miles east of proposed Site 3; and, proposed 
Site 5 (160 undeveloped acres)--West Hamco Industrial Park, 4160 Half 
Acre Road, Batavia.
    The application also requests authority on behalf of Milacron, Inc. 
(Plastics Technology Group) to manufacture plastic products processing 
machinery under FTZ procedures within proposed expansion Sites 3 and 4 
of FTZ 46. The facilities (1,200 employees) are used to produce 
computer-numerically-controlled plastic products processing/
manufacturing machinery, including injection molding, extrusion, blow 
molding, mold tooling, and auxiliary equipment, as well as related 
parts. Components to be sourced from abroad (up to 40% of the finished 
machines' value): seals/rings, gaskets, belts, glass, chain, couplings/
fittings, fasteners, keys, rollers, brackets, pins, rings, cables, 
cylinders, pumps, electric motors, heat exchangers, filters, monitors, 
lock snaps, fiber optic adapters, parts of machinery (HTS Heading 
8477), accumulators, valves, bearings, elbows/fittings, shafts, 
bushings, gear boxes, sprockets, pulleys, idler assemblies, inductors, 
electronic control units, batteries, servos, lamps, resistors, 
capacitors, fuses, circuit breakers, relays, diodes, switches, CPU/
printed circuit/memory boards, integrated circuits, EPROM, numerical 
process controllers, automatic data processing equipment, cable, liquid 
crystal displays, thermocouplers, gauges, sensors, hour counters, pulse 
coders, encoder, transducers, ballscrews, and monitors (duty rates: 
free-9.0%).
    FTZ procedures would exempt Milacron from Customs duty payments on 
the foreign components used in production for export. On its domestic 
sales, Milacron would be able to elect the 3.1 percent duty rate 
applicable to the finished plastics processing machinery for the 
foreign inputs noted above. The company would also defer payments on 
foreign-origin finished plastics processing machinery admitted to the 
proposed expansion sites. FTZ procedures would also exempt certain 
merchandise held in the expansion sites from state/local ad valorem 
inventory taxes. The application indicates that the savings from FTZ 
procedures would help improve the facilities' international 
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.

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    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 August 16, 1999. Rebuttal comments in 
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be 
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to August 30, 1999).
    A copy of the application and the accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce Export Assistance Center, Suite 2650, 36 
East 7th Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, 
NW, Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: June 3, 1999.
Diane Finver,
Acting Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 99-15179 Filed 6-14-99; 8:45 am]
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