[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 249 (Friday, December 27, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79048-79049]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-32726]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 63-2002]


Foreign-Trade Zone 38, Greenwood, SC, Expansion of Manufacturing 
Authority--Subzone 38C; Fuji Photo Film, Inc. (Addition of Medical 
Imaging Products, and Expansion of Production of Color Negative 
Photographic Film and Paper)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the South Carolina State Ports Authority, grantee of FTZ 
38, requesting on behalf of Fuji Photo Film, Inc. (Fuji), to expand the 
scope of manufacturing authority under zone procedures within Subzone 
38C, at the Fuji plant in Greenwood, South Carolina. The application 
was submitted pursuant to 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 December 17, 2002.
    Subzone 38C was approved by the Board in 2000 at a 488-acre site in 
Greenwood, South Carolina. Authority was granted for the the 
manufacture and distribution of imaging and information products 
(graphic arts film; pre-sensitized offset printing plates; blank 
videotapes and computer back-up tape; one-time-use cameras; and color 
negative photographic paper and film) (Board Order 1084, 65 FR 18283, 
April 7, 2000).
    Fuji is now proposing to expand the scope of manufacturing activity 
conducted under zone procedures at Subzone 38C to include additional 
finished products (medical imaging products, components, and related 
products), and to increase the overall level of production authorized 
under FTZ procedures of color negative photographic paper and film. The 
new finished products have duty rates of 3.7% ad valorem. Foreign-
sourced materials under the proposed expanded scope may include the 
following items: prepared glues and adhesives; photographic plates or 
film for X-ray; self-adhesive tape; silver laminated film; cardboard; 
paper laminated film; paper bags; printed labels; polyethylene bags; 
derivatives of anthraquinone, phenothiazine, anthrazine, phthalazine, 
phenol, triazole, triadiazole, benzoxazole, benzimidazole, and 
naphthoxazole; benzoquinone; hydrogen peroxide; silver salt of fatty 
acid; vinyl acetate copolymer; polymethyl methacrylate in gelatin 
solution; chromium compound; triethylamine; polyethylene

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terephthalate; benzimidazole; nipacide; dextrane; calcium chloride; 
paraffin wax; and ammonia solution. Duty rates on these materials range 
from duty-free to 8.7% ad valorem.
    Expanded subzone authority would exempt Fuji from Customs duty 
payments on the aforementioned foreign components when used in export 
production. On its domestic sales, Fuji would be able to choose the 
lower duty rate that applies to the finished products for the foreign 
components, when applicable.
    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 one of 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 St. NW., Washington, DC 20005; or
    2. Submissions via the U.S. Postal Service: Foreign-Trade-Zones 
Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, FCB--Suite 4100W, 1401 Constitution 
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is February 25, 2003. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period to March 12, 2003.
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at the Office of the Foreign-Trade 
Zones Board's Executive Secretary at address Number 1 listed above, and 
at the U.S. Department of Commerce Export Assistance Center, 555 North 
Pleasantburg Drive, Building 1, Suite 109, Greenville, SC 29607.

    Dated: December 17, 2002.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-32726 Filed 12-26-02; 8:45 am]
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