[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 38 (Monday, February 28, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9614-9615]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-3803]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket T-1-2005]


Foreign-Trade Zone 61--San Juan, PR, Application for Temporary/
Interim Manufacturing Authority, Shell Chemicals Yabucoa, Inc. 
(Petrochemical Complex), Yabucoa, PR

    An application has been submitted to the Executive Secretary of the 
Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) by the Puerto Rico Trade and 
Exports Company, grantee of FTZ 61, requesting temporary/interim 
manufacturing (T/IM) authority within Subzone 61I at the Shell 
Chemicals Yabucoa, Inc. (Shell) petrochemical plant, located in 
Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. The application was filed on February 11, 2005.
    The Shell facility (192 employees, 76,000 BPD capacity) is located 
within Subzone 61I. Under T/IM procedures, the company has requested 
authority to produce sulfur, distillate fuels, liquid petroleum gas and 
petroleum gas (HTS 2503.00, 2710.19, 2711.14, 2711.19 and 2711.29, duty 
rate ranges from duty-free

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to 10.5[cent]/barrel). The company will source crude oil (HTS 2709.00, 
duty rate of 5.25[cent] or 10.5[cent]/barrel) from abroad. T/IM 
authority could be granted for a period of up to two years. Shell has 
also submitted a request for permanent FTZ manufacturing authority (see 
Docket 8-2005), which includes additional products and feedstocks.
    FTZ procedures for would exempt Shell from customs duty payments on 
the foreign components used in export production. The company 
anticipates that some 37 percent of the facility's shipments will be 
exported. On its domestic sales, the company would be able to choose 
the customs duty rates for certain petrochemical feedstocks by 
admitting foreign crude oil in non-privileged foreign status.
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
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 Street, 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 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is March 30, 2005.
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board's Executive Secretary at 
the first address listed above.

    Dated: February 11, 2005.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05-3803 Filed 2-25-05; 8:45 am]
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