[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 153 (Wednesday, August 8, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41499-41500]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-19913]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 34-2001]


Foreign-Trade Zone 40--Cleveland, Ohio; Request for Manufacturing 
Authority; HMI Industries Inc. (High Filtration Vacuum and Air 
Cleaners)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, grantee of 
FTZ 40, on behalf of HMI Industries Inc. (HMI), requesting authority to 
manufacture vacuum and air cleaners under FTZ procedures within FTZ 
40--Site 8. The application was formally filed on July 31, 2001.
    The application requests authority on behalf of HMI to manufacture 
high filtration vacuum and air cleaners under zone procedures within 
FTZ 40--Site 8, Strongsville Industrial Park, Royalton Road (State 
Route 82), Strongsville, Ohio. The HMI facility (117 employees) is 
located at 13325 Darice Parkway, Unit A (1 bldg., 80,000 sq. ft.).
    HMI is currently using FTZ procedures for the warehouse and 
distribution operations at this facility. The facility is also used for 
the manufacture of high filtration vacuum surface and air cleaning 
devices (HTS 8509 and 8421, duty free). Components and materials 
sourced from abroad (representing about 30% of all parts consumed in 
manufacturing) include: AC/DC motors; paper sacks and bags; insulated 
copper conductors and other insulated conductors; flexible plastic 
tubes, pipes and hoses and their plastic fittings; metal casters; 
aluminum casting articles; and vacuum cleaners, housings and parts (HTS 
8501.2060, 8501.2040, 8509.9015, 8509.1000, 4819.4000, 8544.5190, 
8544.5920, 3917.3900, 3917.4000, 8302.2000, 7616.9950, 8509.9005, duty 
rates range from duty-free to 5.7%, weighted average--1%).
    FTZ procedures would exempt HMI from Customs duty payments on the 
foreign components used in export production. Nearly 70 percent of the 
plant's shipments are exported. On its domestic sales, HMI would be 
able to choose the duty rates during Customs entry procedures that 
apply to finished vacuum and air cleaners (duty-free) for the foreign 
inputs noted above. The company would also be exempt from duty payments 
on foreign merchandise that becomes scrap/waste. The application 
indicates that savings from zone procedures would 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 9, 2001. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted

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during the subsequent 15-day period to October 24, 2001.
    A copy of the application and the accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at the following locations:
U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, 600 Superior 
Avenue, East #700, Cleveland, OH 44114.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: August 2, 2001.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-19913 Filed 8-7-01; 8:45 am]
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