[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 53 (Monday, March 21, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 13450]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-5532]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1379]


Approval for Expanded Manufacturing Authority (Soft Drink and 
Juice Beverage Concentrates), Foreign-Trade Subzone 61J, Pepsi-Cola 
Manufacturing International, Inc., Cidra, PR

    Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June 
18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) adopts the following Order:
    Whereas, the Puerto Rico Exports Development Corporation, grantee 
of FTZ 61, has requested authority on behalf of Pepsi-Cola 
Manufacturing International, Ltd. (PCMIL), operator of Subzone 61J, at 
the PCMIL soft drink and juice beverage concentrate manufacturing plant 
in Cidra, Puerto Rico, to expand the scope of authority to include 
fruit juice-based beverage concentrates and expanded manufacturing 
capacity under FTZ procedures (FTZ Doc. 46-2003, filed 9-12-2003);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (68 FR 54887, 9-19-2003);
    Whereas, the application was amended (69 FR 54630, 9-9-2004) to 
include a restriction requiring the election of privileged foreign 
status on all foreign-origin orange and grapefruit juice concentrate 
admitted to Subzone 61J for use in the manufacture of fruit juice 
beverage/concentrates;
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the 
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
the Board's regulations are satisfied, and that approval of the 
application, as amended, is in the public interest if approval were 
subject to restriction;
    Now Therefore, the Board hereby approves the request, subject to 
the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 400.28, and 
further subject to a restriction requiring that foreign-origin orange 
and grapefruit products (classified under HTSUS Heading 2009) used in 
fruit juice beverage/concentrate production activity must be admitted 
to the subzone under privileged foreign status (19 CFR 146.41).

    Signed in Washington, DC, this 8th day of March 2005.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05-5532 Filed 3-18-05; 8:45 am]
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