[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 53 (Tuesday, March 18, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14432-14433]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-5459]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[lsqb]Docket 16-2008[rsqb]


Foreign-Trade Zone 39 - Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, Application for 
Subzone, Dal-Tile Corporation, (Flooring and Home Furnishing Products 
Distribution), Sunnyvale and Mesquite, Texas

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board, 
grantee of FTZ 39, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the 
flooring and home furnishing products warehouse/distribution facilities 
of Dal-Tile Corporation (Dal-Tile), at sites in Sunnyvale and Mesquite, 
Texas. The application was submitted pursuant to 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 March 7, 2008.
    The proposed subzone is located at two sites in Dallas County, 
Texas: Site

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1 (623,000 sq. ft. on 35 acres) - located at 199 Planters Road, 
Sunnyvale; and, Site 2 (396,750 sq. ft. on 24 acres) -- located at 510 
N. Peachtree, Suite 200, Mesquite. The facilities will be used for 
quality control, shading, cleaning, repackaging, marking, warehousing 
and distribution of domestic and foreign-origin flooring and home 
furnishing products for both the U.S. market and for re-export. None of 
the activities which Dal-Tile is proposing to perform under zone 
procedures would constitute manufacturing or processing under the FTZ 
Board's regulations. The application indicates that FTZ procedures 
would be used to support Dal-Tile's Texas-based distribution activity 
in competition with facilities abroad.
    FTZ procedures would exempt Dal-Tile from customs duty payments on 
foreign products that are re-exported (less than 5 percent of the 
facilities' shipments). On its domestic shipments, duty payments would 
be deferred until the products are entered for consumption. The company 
may also realize certain logistical benefits related to the use of 
direct delivery and weekly customs entry procedures. The application 
indicates that the savings from FTZ procedures would help improve the 
facilities' 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 
May 19, 2008;. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to June 2, 2008).
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at each of the following locations: U.S. Department of Commerce, Export 
Assistance Center, 808 Throckmorton St., Fort Worth, TX 76102-6315; 
and, Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, D.C. 20230-0002. For further information, contact Diane 
Finver at [email protected] or (202) 482-1367.

    Dated: March 7, 2008.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-5459 Filed 3-17-08; 8:45 am]
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