[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 4, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16756-16757]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-4865]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

(Docket T-1-2006)


Foreign-Trade Subzone 84C--La Porte, TX, Application for Export-
Only Temporary/Interim Manufacturing Authority, E.I. du Pont de Nemours 
and Company, Inc., (Crop Protection Products)

    An application has been submitted to the Executive Secretary of the 
Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) by E.I. du Pont de Nemours and 
Company, Inc. (Du Pont), operator of FTZ Subzone

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84C, on behalf of the Port of Houston Authority, grantee of FTZ 84, 
requesting export-only temporary/interim manufacturing (T/IM) authority 
within Subzone 84C, at Du Pont's facilities located in La Porte, Texas. 
The application was filed on March 24, 2006.
    The Du Pont facility (675 full and part-time employees; annual 
production capacity of 3500 to 4400 metric tons of the products which 
are the subject of the application) is located at 12501 Strang Road, La 
Porte, Texas. Under T/IM procedures, the company has requested 
authority to manufacture two crop-protection related products (methomyl 
insectide technical and lannate; these products have U.S. duty rates of 
6.5%). The company would source the following input item from abroad 
for manufacturing the finished products under T/IM authority, as 
delineated in Du Pont's application: acetalhydeoxide (AAO) U.S. duty 
rate is 6.5%. T/IM authority could be granted for a period of up to two 
years.
    FTZ procedures would allow Du Pont to avoid payment of U.S. duties 
on the input listed above because all of the production for which FTZ 
T/IM authority is sought will be for re-export. Du Pont may also 
realize a small amount of logistical/paperwork savings under FTZ 
procedures.
    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 St. NW, Washington, D.C. 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, D.C. 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is May 4, 2006.
    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: March 28, 2006.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-4865 Filed 4-3-06; 8:45 am]
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