[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 102 (Thursday, May 25, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33802-33803]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-13098]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 2-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 193-Pinellas County, FL; Application for 
Subzone Status, Amendment of Application--RP Scherer Corporation 
(Gelatin Capsules)

    Notice is hereby given that the application of the Pinellas County 
Board of County Commissioners, grantee of FTZ 193, requesting authority 
for special-purpose subzone status for the gelatin capsule 
manufacturing facilities of RP Scherer Corporation (Scherer) located in 
the St. Petersburg/Clearwater area, Pinellas County, Florida (65 FR 
5308, 2/3/00), has been amended to expand the proposed use of zone 
procedures at the Scherer plant to include the manufacture of a new 
anti-AIDS drug, using foreign and domestic ingredients. The foreign 
ingredients include Lopinavir (HTSUS 2933.59.7000--9.3% duty rate). The 
finished product is classified under HTSUS 3004.70.9010 and is duty 
free. Scherer will be finishing and encapsulating the finished drug 
under contract for Abbott Laboratories, Inc.,

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which has authority from the FTZ Board to produce the drug under zone 
procedures at its Chicago, Illinois, plant.
    The application remains otherwise unchanged.
    The comment period is reopened until June 26, 2000.

    Dated: May 17, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-13098 Filed 5-24-00; 8:45 am]
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