[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 39 (Tuesday, February 27, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12459-12460]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-4774]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 11-2001]


Foreign-Trade Zone 147--Reading, Pennsylvania; Application for 
Subzone, C&J Clark America, Inc., Distribution of Footwear, Hanover, 
Pennsylvania

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Foreign-Trade Zone Corporation of Southeastern 
Pennsylvania, grantee of FTZ 147, requesting special-purpose subzone 
status for the footwear warehousing/distribution facility of C&J Clark 
America, Inc. (Clark), in Hanover, Pennsylvania. 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 February 15, 2001.
    The Clark Hanover Logistics Center (305,668 sq. ft./3 bldgs. on 
24.8 acres) is

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located at 240 Kindig Lane in Conewago Township, just outside Hanover, 
Pennsylvania. The facilities (210 employees) are used for storage, 
inspection, repairing, packaging and distribution of footwear received 
by Clarks Companies, N.A., in North America. Almost all of the products 
are sourced from abroad and some 8 percent are currently exported.
    Zone procedures would exempt Clark from Customs duty payments on 
foreign products that are reexported. On domestic sales, the company 
would be able to defer payments until merchandise is shipped from the 
plant. The application indicates that the savings from zone procedures 
will 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 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 
April 30, 2001. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to May 14, 2001).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, One Commerce 
Square, 228 Walnut St., 850, P.O. Box 11698, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 
17108-1698; and
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 4008, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: February 15, 2001.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-4774 Filed 2-26-01; 8:45 am]
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