[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 46 (Friday, March 7, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 12374]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-4550]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 12-2008]


Foreign-Trade Zone 265 - Conroe, Texas, Application for Subzone 
Status, Sondex, L.P. (Oil and Gas Field Services Equipment), Conroe, 
Texas

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the City of Conroe, Texas, grantee of FTZ 265, 
requesting special-purpose subzone status for the oil and gas field 
services equipment facility of Sondex, L.P. (Sondex), located in 
Conroe, Texas. The application was submitted pursuant to the provisions 
of the FTZ Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of 
the Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was formally filed on February 21, 
2008.
    The proposed subzone would include Sondex=s warehousing facility 
(20 employees, 20,000 sq. ft., 10 acres) at a site in Conroe, Texas, 
located at 2418 North Frazier Street. The facility is used for the 
warehousing, distribution, testing and repair of foreign-origin and 
domestic downhole-wireline equipment and measuring-while- drilling 
equipment and parts (duty rates range from duty-free to 2.5 percent) 
for the U.S. market and export. FTZ procedures would be utilized to 
support Sondex=s distribution activity that competes with facilities 
located abroad.
    FTZ procedures would exempt Sondex from Customs duty payments on 
foreign products that are re-exported. Some twenty percent of the 
facility's shipments are exported. On domestic sales, the company would 
be able to defer payments until merchandise is shipped from the 
facility and entered for U.S. consumption. Sondex also plans to realize 
logistical benefits through the use of weekly customs entry procedures. 
The application indicates that all of the above-cited savings from FTZ 
procedures 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 on the application 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 May 6, 2008. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period to May 21, 2008.
    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, 1919 Smith Street, 
Suite 1026, Houston, Texas 77002; and the Office of the Executive 
Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 
2111, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.
    For further information, contact Kathleen Boyce at (202) 482-1346 
or [email protected].

    Dated: February 21, 2008.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-4550 Filed 3-6-08; 8:45 am]
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