[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 250 (Friday, December 30, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 77377]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-8149]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1427]


Approval of Manufacturing Authority Within Foreign-Trade Zone 
105; North Kingstown, RI; Southeastern New England Shipbuilding 
Corporation (Shipbuilding)

    Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June 
18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u) (the Act), the Foreign-Trade 
Zones Board (the Board) adopts the following Order:
    Whereas, the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, grantee 
of FTZ 105, has requested authority on behalf of Southeastern New 
England Shipbuilding Corporation (Senesco) to construct and repair 
oceangoing vessels under FTZ procedures within FTZ 105--Site 2 (Quonset 
Business Park), North Kingstown, Rhode Island (Docket 21-2005, filed 5-
16-2005);
    Whereas, the application seeks FTZ authority to construct and 
repair tugboats, double-hulled liquid barges, and articulating tug 
barges;
    Whereas, the proposed shipbuilding and repair activity would be 
subject to the ``Standard Shipyard Restriction'' (full Customs duties 
paid on steel mill products);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (70 FR 29477, 5-23-2005); and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the 
examiner's report and finds that the requirements of the Act and the 
Board's regulations are satisfied, and that approval of the application 
is in the public interest;
    Now, Therefore, the Board approves the request subject to the Act 
and the Board's regulations, including section 400.28, and the 
following special conditions:

    Any foreign steel mill product admitted to the subzone, 
including plate, angles, shapes, channels, rolled steel stock, bars, 
pipes and tubes, not incorporated into merchandise otherwise 
classified, and which is used in manufacturing, shall be subject to 
full Customs duties in accordance with applicable law, unless the 
Executive Secretary determines that the same item is not then being 
produced by a domestic steel mill.
    In addition to the annual report, Senesco shall annually advise 
the Board's Executive Secretary (Sec.  400.28(a)(3)) as to 
significant new contracts with appropriate information concerning 
foreign purchases otherwise dutiable.


    Signed at Washington, DC, this 21st day of December 2005.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. E5-8149 Filed 12-29-05; 8:45 am]
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