[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 167 (Monday, August 30, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52855-52856]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-19727]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 37-2004]


Foreign-Trade Zone 50, Long Beach, CA, Request for Manufacturing 
Authority (Transceiver Radios)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by Metro International Trade Services LLC, operator of FTZ 
50, requesting authority on behalf of Maney Aircraft, Inc. (Maney) for 
the manufacture of multi-mission tactical transceiver radios under FTZ 
procedures within Site 2 of FTZ 50 in Ontario, California. 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 August 19, 2004.
    Maney operates a 15,000 square foot warehousing and manufacturing 
facility within Site 2 of FTZ 50 for the manufacture of transceiver 
radios. The finished products would enter the United States duty free. 
Imported inputs are projected to comprise 50 percent of the value of 
finished products produced under FTZ procedures.
    The company indicates that the foreign inputs that may be admitted 
under FTZ procedures include the following: power supplies; tuners; 
receivers; transmitters; fuses; switches; electrical distribution 
ducts; junction boxes; microphones; speakers; headsets; audio-frequency 
electric amplifiers;

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electric sound amplifier sets; plastic handles and knobs; lead-acid 
storage batteries; nickel-cadmium storage batteries; nickel-iron 
storage batteries; and other storage batteries. Duty rates on the 
proposed imported components currently range from duty-free to 6.5 
percent.
    This application requests authority to allow Maney to conduct the 
activity under FTZ procedures, which would exempt the company from 
Customs duty payments on the foreign components used in export 
activity. On its domestic sales, the company would be able to choose 
the duty rate that applies to finished products for the foreign 
components noted above. The application also indicates that the company 
will derive savings from simplification and expediting of the company's 
import and export procedures. Maney's application states that the 
above-cited savings from zone procedures could help improve the 
company's 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 is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
(original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive 
Secretary at one of 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 St., NW., Washington, DC 20005; or
    2. Submissions Via the U.S. Postal Service: Foreign-Trade-Zones 
Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, FCB--Suite 4100W, 1401 Constitution 
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is October 29, 2004. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period to November 15, 
2004.
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at the Office of the Foreign-Trade-
Zones Board's Executive Secretary at the first address listed above, 
and at the Los Angeles (Downtown) U.S. Export Assistance Center, 444 S. 
Flower, 34th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90071.

    Dated: August 23, 2004.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 04-19727 Filed 8-27-04; 8:45 am]
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