[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 113 (Monday, June 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 36887]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-14798]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 24-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 9--Honolulu, HI Request for Removal of Board 
Order Restriction, Pacific Allied Products, Ltd. (Plastic Food/Beverage 
Containers)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Department of Business, Economic Development & 
Tourism of the State of Hawaii, grantee of FTZ 9, requesting authority, 
on behalf of Pacific Allied Products, Ltd. (PAP), to extend its 
authority to manufacture plastic food/beverage containers under FTZ 
procedures, subject to restriction. It was formally filed on June 2, 
2000.
    Board Order 735 (60 FR 26715, 5/18/95) authorized the manufacture 
of plastic food/beverage containers under zone procedures within FTZ 9 
solely for the Hawaiian and export markets for a period ending July 1, 
2000. The State of Hawaii is now requesting that the manufacturing 
authority for PAP be extended on a permanent basis. Foreign-sourced 
components used in PAP's manufacturing include polyethylene 
terephthalate and high density polyethylene.
    FTZ procedures exempt PAP from Customs duty payments on the foreign 
components used in export production. On its Hawaiian sales, the 
company is able to choose the duty rate that applies to the plastic 
containers (3%) for the foreign components noted above (duty rates 
1.2 cents/kg. + 7.5% and 8.9%, respectively). The request indicates 
that the savings from FTZ procedures will continue to help improve the 
facility's 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.
    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 11, 2000. Rebuttal comments in 
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be 
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period to August 28, 2000.
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the following location:
    Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 4008, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: June 2, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-14798 Filed 6-9-00; 8:45 am]
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