[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 149 (Wednesday, August 2, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47376-47377]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-19555]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 39-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 44--Mt. Olive, NJ; Request for Extension of 
Manufacturing Authority; Quest International Fragrances USA, Inc. 
(Flavor and Fragrance Products)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth Commission, 
Trenton, NJ, grantee of FTZ 44, on behalf of Quest International 
Fragrances USA, Inc. (Quest), requesting extension of authority to 
manufacture flavor and fragrance products under FTZ procedures. The 
application was formally filed on July 18, 2000.
    Quest received approval for manufacturing authority on August 31, 
1989 (A-22-89), subject to a 5-year time limit (to 8/31/94; extended to 
8/31/01), and to special reporting requirements. Quest is now 
requesting that the authority to manufacture under zone procedures be 
extended on a permanent basis and without the special reporting 
requirements.
    FTZ procedures exempt Quest from Customs duty payments on the 
foreign components used in export production. On its domestic sales, 
the company is able to defer Customs duty payments on foreign materials 
and choose the duty

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rate that applies to the finished products (duty free) instead of the 
rates otherwise applicable to the foreign materials (duty rates on 
these items range from duty-free to 12.7%). The company is exempt from 
duty payments on foreign merchandise that becomes scrap/waste. The 
application indicates that savings from zone procedures would continue 
to help improve the plant'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 of their receipt is October 2, 2000. Rebuttal comments in 
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be 
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period October 16, 2000.
    A copy of the application and the accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at the following location: Office of 
the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 3716, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 
20230.

    Dated: July 21, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-19555 Filed 8-1-00; 8:45 am]
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