[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 86 (Thursday, May 5, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 23843]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-8991]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 17-2005]


Foreign-Trade Zone 17--Kansas City, MO; Application for Export 
Manufacturing Authority; Cereal Ingredients, Inc. (Food Flavoring 
Particulates and Mixes); Leavenworth, KS

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Greater Kansas City Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., 
grantee of FTZ 17, pursuant to Sec.  400.32(b)(1) of the Board's 
regulations (15 CFR part 400), on behalf of Cereal Ingredients, Inc. 
(CII), for authority to manufacture food flavoring particulates and 
mixes for export under FTZ procedures within FTZ 17. 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 April 26, 2005.
    The proposed activity would occur at CII's manufacturing facility 
located at 4720 South 13th Street within the Leavenworth Area Business 
Center (Site 5) in Leavenworth, Kansas. The facility (32 employees/8 
acres/40,000 sq. ft., plus 40,000 sq. ft. expansion area) is used to 
produce flavoring particulates and swirl mixes (HTSUS 1901.90) for food 
products, dairy products and baked goods. The food particulates add 
flavor, texture and color to baked goods, breakfast cereals, ice cream, 
and nutritional foods. The activity conducted under FTZ procedures 
would involve manufacturing of food particulates and swirl mixes using 
domestic and foreign ingredients for export only. Ingredients purchased 
from abroad would include: Cane sugar, beet sugar, cocoa, cinnamon soy 
protein concentrate and isolate, milk protein concentrate and isolate, 
and textured protein concentrate. None of the foreign-origin sugar and 
dairy products which are subject to U.S. import quotas would be entered 
for domestic consumption, and all such products would be re-exported 
from the zone.
    FTZ procedures would exempt CII from quota requirements and Customs 
duty payments on the foreign ingredients used in the proposed export 
FTZ production. Duties would be deferred or reduced on foreign 
production equipment admitted to FTZ 17 until which time it becomes 
operational. The application indicates that FTZ manufacturing authority 
for export production would help improve the facility'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 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-
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 July 5, 2005. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to July 19, 
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 
address No. 1 above.

    Dated: April 26, 2005.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05-8991 Filed 5-4-05; 8:45 am]
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