[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 36 (Tuesday, February 24, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 8379]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-3983]


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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; Amendment of Application: Additional 
Foreign Components

    Notice is hereby given that the application of 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 (68 FR 44281, 7-28-03), has been amended to revise the 
scope of sourcing authority to include additional foreign-origin 
components to be used in the manufacture of high-voltage circuit 
breakers under foreign-trade zone (FTZ) procedures. The additional 
components that would be purchased from abroad include: insulated wire, 
current transformers, capacitors, generators, monitors, circuit 
breakers, and sensors (2004 duty rate range: free--3.9%). FTZ 
procedures would exempt MEPPI from Customs duty payments on the foreign 
components noted above that are 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 these foreign-sourced components.
    Public comment on the application is invited from interested 
parties. The comment period is hereby reopened until March 25, 2004. 
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.
    A copy of the application is 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: February 13, 2004.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 04-3983 Filed 2-23-04; 8:45 am]
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