[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 19 (Tuesday, January 29, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 5175]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-1544]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1540]


Approval for Manufacturing Authority Merck Sharpe & Dohme Quimica 
de Puerto Rico Inc. (Pharmaceutical Products) Caguas, PR

    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:

    Whereas, the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Corporation, 
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 7, has requested manufacturing 
authority under Sec.  400.32(b)(2) of the Board's regulations on behalf 
of Merck Sharpe & Dohme Quimica de Puerto Rico Inc. within FTZ 7 at the 
MOVA Pharmaceutical Corporation facility in Caguas, Puerto Rico (FTZ 
Docket 31-2007, filed 7/27/07);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (72 FR 43233, 8/3/07); and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the 
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
the Board's regulations are satisfied, and that approval of the 
application is in the public interest;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application for manufacturing authority within FTZ 7 on behalf 
of Merck Sharpe & Dohme Quimica de Puerto Rico Inc. is approved, 
subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations, including section 
400.28.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 17th day of January 2008.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-1544 Filed 1-28-08; 8:45 am]
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