[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 32 (Friday, February 15, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7131-7132]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-3812]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foregin-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 12-2002]


Foreign-Trade Zone 28--New Bedford, MA; Application for Subzone 
Status; Brittany Dyeing & Printing Corporation, (Textile Finishing)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the City of New Bedford, grantee of FTZ 28, requesting 
special-purpose subzone status for the textile finishing plant of 
Brittany Dyeing & Printing Corporation (Brittany), located in New 
Bedford, Massachusetts. 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 7, 2002.
    The Brittany plant (3 acres/226,000 sq.ft.) is located at 1357 
Rodney French Boulevard in the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The 
facility (247 employees) is used to process customer-owned textile 
fabrics for the U.S. market and export. In this activity, foreign, 
quota-class woven fabrics (HTSUS 5208.11.20, .40, .80; 5208.12.40, .60, 
.80; 5209.11.00) would be admitted to the zone under privileged foreign 
status (19 CFR 146.41) in greige form to be dyed, printed, and finished 
using domestic dyes and chemicals. The finishing activity may involve 
shrinking, sanferizing, desizing, sponging, bleaching, cleaning/
laundering, calendaring, hydroxilating, decatizing, fulling, 
mercerizing, chintzing, moiring, framing/beaming, stiffening, 
weighting, crushing, tubing, thermofixing, anti-microbial finishing, 
shower proofing, flame retardation, and embossing of customer-owned 
fabric. The finished privileged foreign status fabric would either be 
exported from the proposed subzone or be transferred for Customs entry 
under its original textile quota and HTS classifications (no activity 
would be permitted that would result in transformation, tariff shift, 
or change in quota class or country of origin), with appropriate duty 
assessment and quota decrement.
    FTZ procedures would exempt Brittany from Customs duty payments on 
the foreign fabric processed for re-export. On shipments for the U.S. 
market, full duty payment would be deferred until the fabric is 
transferred from the zone for Customs entry. The application indicates 
that the savings from FTZ procedures would 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 following addresses:
    1. Submissions via Express/Package Delivery Services: Foreign-Trade 
Zones Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building-Suite 
4100W, 1099 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005; or,
    2. Submissions via the U.S. Postal Service: Foreign-Trade Zones 
Board,

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U.S. Department of Commerce, FCB-4100W, 1401 Constitution Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is April 16, 2002. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to May 1, 2002).
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board's Executive Secretary at 
address No.1 listed above and at the U.S. Department of Commerce Export 
Assistance Center, Suite 307, World Trade Center, 164 Northern Avenue, 
Boston, MA 02210.

    Dated: February 7, 2002.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-3812 Filed 2-14-02; 8:45 am]
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