[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 144 (Monday, July 28, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 44281]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-19142]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 35-2003]


Foreign-Trade Zone 33--Pittsburgh, PA, Application for Subzone 
Status, Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. (Circuit Breakers), 
Warrendale and Freedom, PA

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Regional Industrial Development Corporation of 
Southwestern Pennsylvania, grantee of FTZ 33, requesting special-
purpose subzone status for the circuit breaker manufacturing facilities 
of Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. (MEPPI) (a subsidiary of 
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, of Japan), located in Warrendale and 
Freedom, Pennsylvania. 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 July 16, 2003.
    The proposed subzone would be comprised of three separate 
facilities: Site 1 (7 acres/76,000 sq. ft., manufacturing plant)--510-
512 Keystone Drive, Warrendale (Allegheny County), Pennsylvania; Site 2 
(12 acres/50,000 sq. ft., manufacturing plant)--530 Keystone Drive, 
Warrendale, about 20 miles northwest of Pittsburgh; and, Site 3 (5 
acres/14,000 sq. ft., leased warehouse)--Buildings 3 and 3A, Tri-County 
Commerce Park, 2509 Lovi Road, Freedom (Beaver County), Pennsylvania, 
some 5 miles west of Site 1. The facilities (190 employees) are used to 
assemble and repair high-voltage circuit breakers (HTSUS Heading 8535) 
for export and the U.S. market. Up to 600 units can be produced 
annually. The circuit breakers (1,000+ volts) are assembled from 
domestic and foreign-origin components. Components purchased from 
abroad (representing approximately 50% of finished circuit breaker 
value) include: mechanisms, moving and stationary interrupters, trip 
coils, DC motors, auxiliary switches, porcelain and composite 
insulators, and tanks (duty rate range: free--4.0%). FTZ procedures 
would exempt MEPPI from Customs duty payments on the foreign materials 
used in export production. On its domestic sales and exports to NAFTA 
markets, the company would be able to choose the duty rate that applies 
to finished circuit breakers (2.0%) for the foreign-sourced components 
noted above. 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 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, U.S. Department of Commerce, FCB-4100W, 1401 Constitution Ave., 
NW., Washington, DC 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is September 26, 2003. 
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the 
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period 
(to October 14, 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 2002, 1000 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, 
PA 15222.

    Dated: July 16, 2003.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-19142 Filed 7-25-03; 8:45 am]
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