[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 4, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10203-10204]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-5055]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1270]


Grant of Authority for Subzone Status, J. Ray McDermott, Inc., 
(Offshore Drilling/Production Platforms) Amelia, LA

    Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June 
18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) adopts the following Order:

    Whereas, by an Act of Congress approved June 18, 1934, an Act 
``To provide for the establishment * * * of foreign-trade zones in 
ports of entry of the United States, to expedite and encourage 
foreign commerce, and for other purposes,'' as amended (19 U.S.C. 
81a-81u) (the FTZ Act), the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) is 
authorized to grant to qualified corporations the privilege of 
establishing foreign-trade zones in or adjacent to U.S. Customs 
ports of entry;
    Whereas, the Board's regulations (15 CFR part 400) provide for 
the establishment of special-purpose subzones when existing zone 
facilities cannot serve the specific use involved, and when the 
activity results in a significant public benefit and is in the 
public interest;
    Whereas, an application from the Port of South Louisiana 
Commission, grantee of FTZ 124, for authority to establish special-
purpose subzone status for the offshore drilling/production platform 
manufacturing facilities of J. Ray McDermott, Inc., in Amelia, 
Louisiana, was filed by the Board on November 12, 2002, and notice 
inviting public comment was given in the Federal Register (FTZ 
Docket 51-2002, 67 FR 70046, 11-20-2002); and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of 
the examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ 
Act and Board's regulations would be satisfied, and that approval of 
the application would be in the public interest if approval were 
given subject to the standard shipyard restriction on foreign steel 
mill products;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby grants authority for subzone 
status at the offshore drilling/production platform manufacturing 
facilities of J. Ray McDermott, Inc. (JRM), in Amelia, Louisiana 
(Subzone 124I), at the locations described in the application, 
subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations, including Sec.  
400.28, and subject to the following special conditions: (1) Any 
foreign steel mill products admitted to the subzone, including 
plate, angles, shapes, channels, rolled steel stock, bars, pipes and 
tubes, not incorporated into merchandise otherwise classified, and 
which is used in manufacturing, shall be subject to Customs duties 
in accordance with applicable law, unless the Executive Secretary 
determines that the same item is not then being produced by a 
domestic steel mill; and, (2) J. Ray McDermott, Inc., shall annually 
advise the Board's Executive Secretary (Sec.  400.28(a)(3)) as to 
significant new contracts with appropriate information concerning 
foreign purchases otherwise dutiable, so that

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the Board may consider whether any foreign dutiable items are being 
imported for manufacturing in the subzone primarily because of 
subzone status and whether the Board should consider requiring 
Customs duties to be paid on such items.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 21st day of February 2003.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 03-5055 Filed 3-3-03; 8:45 am]
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