[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 123 (Tuesday, June 27, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36516-36517]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-10106]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1453]


Grant of Authority for Subzone Status, Northern Imports, 
LLC(Magnesium and Aluminum Diecasting), Harbor Springs and Newberry, 
Michigan

    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:

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    Whereas, the Foreign-Trade Zones Act provides for ``. . . the 
establishment . . . of foreign-trade zones in ports of entry of the 
United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce, and for 
other purposes,'' and authorizes the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the 
Board) to grant to qualified corporations the privilege of establishing 
foreign-trade zones in or adjacent to U.S. Customs ports of entry;
    Whereas, the Board's regulations (15 CFR Part 400) provide for the 
establishment of special-purpose subzones when existing zone facilities 
cannot serve the specific use involved, and when the activity results 
in a significant public benefit and is in the public interest;
    Whereas, the City of Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 16, has made application for authority to establish 
special-purpose subzone status at the magnesium and aluminum diecasting 
facilities of Northern Imports, LLC, located in Harbor Springs and 
Newberry, Michigan (Docket 3-2005, filed 1-7-2005);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (70 FR 2997, 1-19-2005); and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the 
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
Board's regulations would be satisfied, and that approval of the 
application would be in the public interest if approval were subject to 
restriction;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby grants authority for activity 
related to magnesium and aluminum diecasting at the manufacturing 
facilities of Northern Imports, LLC, located in Harbor Springs and 
Newberry, Michigan (Subzone 16A), as described in the application and 
Federal Register notice, subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's 
regulations, including Section 400.28, and further subject to a 
restriction requiring that all foreign-origin magnesium alloy products 
not subject to U.S. antidumping or countervailing duty orders must be 
admitted to the subzone under privileged foreign status (19 CFR 
Sec. 146.41) when used to manufacture finished products for the U.S. 
market.
    Signed at Washington, DC, this 31st day of May 2006.

David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary of Commercefor Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-10106 Filed 6-26-06; 8:45 am]
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