[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 51 (Tuesday, March 16, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12301-12302]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-5921]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 8-2004]


Foreign-Trade Zone 66--Wilmington, NC; Request for Processing 
Authority, Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation (Industrial Power 
Generating Equipment)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the North Carolina Department of Commerce, grantee of 
FTZ 66, pursuant to Sec.  400.28(a)(2) of the Board's regulations (15 
CFR part 400), requesting authority on behalf of Siemens Westinghouse 
Power Corporation (SWPC) to process foreign-origin and domestic 
industrial power generating equipment under FTZ procedures within FTZ 
66. It was formally filed on March 9, 2004.
    SWPC is a producer of large industrial power generating turbines 
and generators that are installed in combined-cycle power plants 
operated by electric generation utilities. In the proposed processing 
activity (as defined in Sec.  400.2(l)), foreign-origin steam turbines 
with a capacity of greater than 100 megawatts (HTSUS 8406.81.1070) 
would be admitted to the zone under nonprivileged foreign status (19 
CFR 146.42) and U.S.-produced electric generators would be admitted 
under domestic status on a nonconcurrent basis. The turbines and 
generators would then be transferred from the zone in a combined 
Customs entry under the classification of electric generating sets 
(HTSUS 8502.39.0000), as provided by specific Customs rulings. The 
company indicates that this activity would occur on a recurring regular 
basis.
    FTZ procedures would exempt SWPC from Customs duty payments on the 
foreign power generation turbines processed for export as electric 
generating sets. On withdrawals from the zone for Customs entry, SWPC 
would be able to elect the duty rate that applies to electric generator 
sets (2.5%) for the foreign turbines (6.7%). The application indicates 
that the savings from FTZ procedures would help improve the SWPC's 
international competitiveness.
    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 April 12, 2004. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to April 20, 
2004).

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    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.

    Dated: March 9, 2004.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 04-5921 Filed 3-15-04; 8:45 am]
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