[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 232 (Friday, December 3, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67845-67846]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-31417]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 60-99]


Foreign-Trade Zone 106--Oklahoma City, OK; Application for 
Subzone, Imation Enterprises Corporation, Weatherford, OK

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Port Authority of the Greater Oklahoma City Area, 
grantee of FTZ 106, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the 
manufacturing facilities (data storage products) of Imation Enterprises 
Corporation (Imation), located in the Weatherford, Oklahoma area. The 
application was

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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 November 24, 1999.
    Imation Enterprises Corporation has four sites with 320 employees 
in Custer County, Oklahoma. Site 1 (155 acres) is located at 2000 East 
Frontage Road in Weatherford, Oklahoma; Site 2 (3 acres) is located at 
1300 Lera Drive in Weatherford, Oklahoma and 3501 East Main Street, 
Weatherford, Oklahoma; Site 3 (2.39 acres) is located at 308 Wilson 
Road, Weatherford, Oklahoma; and Site 4 (3.27 acres) is located at 7815 
Gemini Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Imation facilities are 
used for the manufacturing, testing, packaging and warehousing of 1.44 
MB standard and SuperdiskTM high capacity magnetic floppy 
diskettes, media for magnetic floppy diskettes and 
SuperdiskTM 3.5TM internal and external drives 
(HTS 8523.20 and 8471.70, duty free). Components and materials sourced 
from abroad (representing 88% of all parts consumed in manufacturing) 
include: carbon black, iron oxides, polypropylene, polystyrene and 
polycarbonate resin, acrylic polymers, articles of plastic and paper, 
helical springs, stainless steel tape guides, electronic conductors and 
power supplies for data processing, floppy magnetic disk drive units, 
and electric conductors (HTS 2803, 2821, 3902, 3903, 3907, 3923, 2926, 
4807, 4811, 4819, 4821, 4823, 7326.90, 8471 and 8544 duty rate ranges 
from duty free to 10.2%). The application also indicates that the 
company may in the future import under FTZ procedures other materials 
used in the production of data storage products.
    FTZ procedures would exempt Imation from Customs duty payments on 
the foreign components used in export production. Some 50 percent of 
the plant's shipments are exported. On its domestic sales, Imation 
would be able to choose the duty rates during Customs entry procedures 
that apply to finished data storage products (duty free) for the 
foreign inputs noted above. Also, Imation has submitted applications 
for subzone status at three additional locations, and products shipped 
to facilities with subzone status could be further processed while 
remaining in zone status. The request indicates that the savings from 
FTZ 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 on the application 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 February 1, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to February 16, 2000).
    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, 301 Northwest 
63rd Street, Suite 330, Oklahoma City, OK 73116
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20230.

    Dated: November 24, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-31417 Filed 12-2-99; 8:45 am]
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