[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 116 (Tuesday, June 17, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 35856]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-15289]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 26--2003]


Foreign-Trade Zone 26--Atlanta, GA; Application for Subzone 
Status; Inflation Systems, Inc., Facilities (Automotive Airbag 
Inflators); LaGrange, GA

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Georgia Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of FTZ 26, 
requesting special-purpose subzone status for the automotive airbag 
inflator manufacturing facilities of Inflation Systems, Inc. (ISI) (a 
subsidiary of Takata Corporation, of Tokyo, Japan) located in LaGrange, 
Georgia. 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 
June 9, 2003.
    The proposed subzone would include two ISI facilities located about 
60 miles southwest of Atlanta: Site 1 (138 acres/130,000 sq. ft.)--
manufacturing plant located at 200 Piedmont Circle, LaGrange (Troup 
County), Georgia; and, Site 2 (5 acres/25,000 sq. ft.)--warehouse 
located within the Gordon Commercial Park at 118 Gordon Commercial 
Drive, LaGrange. The facilities (400 employees) are used to produce 
automotive airbag inflators for export and the domestic market. The 
manufacturing plant has capacity to produce about six and a half 
million inflators annually. Components purchased from abroad 
(representing about 10% of finished inflator value) include: bases, 
caps, flanges, disks, bodies, closures, and connectors classified under 
HTSUS 8708.99.8080, and filters (duty rate range: free--2.5%).
    FTZ procedures would exempt ISI from Customs duty payments on the 
foreign components used in export production. On its domestic sales and 
exports to NAFTA countries, ISI would be able to defer duty payment on 
the foreign components used in production until the finished inflators 
are formally entered for consumption. No duties would be paid on 
foreign components of inflators that are transferred in-bond to auto 
assembly plants with subzone status. The application indicates that 
subzone status would help improve the facilities' 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 BBoard.
    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, U.S. Department of Commerce, FCB--4100W, 1401 Constitution Ave., 
NW., Washington, DC 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is August 18, 2003. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to September 1, 
2003).
    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 900, 285 Peachtree Center Avenue, Atlanta, 
Georgia 30308.

    Dated: June 10, 2003.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-15289 Filed 6-16-03; 8:45 am]
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