[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 180 (Monday, September 18, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 54611]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-15479]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 39-2006]


Foreign-Trade Zone 29 - Louisville, Kentucky, Application for 
Subzone Status, NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc., Plant (Forklift 
Trucks), Berea, Kentucky

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Louisville and Jefferson County Riverport Authority, 
grantee of FTZ 29, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the 
forklift truck manufacturing facility of NACCO Materials Handling 
Group, Inc. (NMHG), located in Berea, Kentucky. 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 September 8, 2006.
    The NMHG plant (52 acres/508,000 sq. ft.) is located at 2200 
Menelaus Road, in Berea (Madison County), Kentucky, about 40 miles 
south of Lexington. The facility (1,000 employees) is used to produce 
forklift trucks (Class IV and Class V) powered by gasoline, propane, or 
diesel engines, and forklift truck components. The manufacturing 
process at the facility involves machining, cutting, sawing, shearing, 
milling, welding, bending, and assembly of up to 25,000 units annually. 
Components purchased from abroad (representing up to 20[percnt] of 
finished forklift truck value) used in manufacturing include: engines, 
parts of engines, control panels, control centers, switchgear 
assemblies, distribution boards, printed circuits, torque converters, 
parts of transmissions, gears, bearing housings, parts of forklift 
trucks, electric motors, hydraulic pumps, crankshafts, camshafts, 
transmission shafts, relays, flywheels, pulleys, tubes/pipes, ignition 
parts, harnesses, catalytic converters, filters, heat exchangers, 
hydraulic cylinders and related fluid power components, parts of valves 
and check appliances, fuel injection pumps, electromagnetic couplings/
clutches/brakes, wire, electric conductors/converters, steering 
components, caps/lids, parts of pumps/compressors, starters, bearings, 
floor coverings, electrical connectors and related assemblies, wiring 
harnesses, fasteners, couplings/u-joints, chains, gaskets, generators, 
carbon brushes, transformers, rotors, stators, power supplies, 
converters, spark plugs, ignition coils and distributors, starter 
motors, relays, switches, horns, capacitors, resistors, fuses, 
controllers, circuit breakers and protectors, conductors, lamps/
lighting equipment, wheel hubs, and parts of seats (duty rate range: 
free - 9.0[percnt]).
    FTZ procedures would exempt NMHG from Customs duty payments on the 
foreign components used in export production. On its domestic sales and 
exports to NAFTA markets, the company would be able to choose the duty 
rate that applies to forklift trucks and forklift truck components 
(duty free) for the foreign-sourced inputs noted above. The forklift 
truck duty rate would apply to the foreign inputs if the finished 
forklift truck components are shipped via zone-to-zone transfer to U.S. 
forklift truck assembly plants with subzone status. Duties would be 
deferred or reduced on foreign production equipment admitted to the 
proposed subzone until such time as it becomes operational. The 
application indicates that subzone status 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 is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
(original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive 
Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is 
November 17, 2006. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to December 4, 2006.
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations: 
U.S. Department of Commerce Export Assistance Center, 1600 World Trade 
Center, 333 W. Vine Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40507; and, Office of 
the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 1115, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, 
District of Columbia 20230-0002; Tel: (202) 482-2862.

    Dated: September 8, 2006.
Pierre V. Duy,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-15479 Filed 9-15-06; 8:45 am]
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