[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 74 (Wednesday, April 16, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 20611]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-8175]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

(Docket T-1-2008)


Foreign-Trade Zone 79 Tampa, FL, Application for Temporary/
Interim Manufacturing Authority, Tampa Bay Shipbuilding and Repair 
Company (Shipbuilding), Tampa, FL

    An application has been submitted to the Executive Secretary of the 
Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) by the City of Tampa, grantee of 
FTZ 79, requesting temporary/interim manufacturing (T/IM) authority 
within FTZ 79 at the Tampa Bay Shipbuilding and Repair Company (TBSRC) 
facility in Tampa, Florida. The application was filed on April 8, 2008.
    The TBSRC facility (852 employees) is located at 1130 McCloskey 
Boulevard within the Hooker's Point Terminal Complex (Site 5), in 
Tampa. Under T/IM procedures, TBSRC would construct and repair cruise 
ships and ferries (HTSUS 8901.90), double-hulled liquid barges and 
articulating tug barges (HTSUS 8901.20), fishing boats (8902.00), tug 
boats (8904.00), dredgers (8905.10), offshore production platforms 
(8905.20), and floating docks (8905.90) for domestic and international 
customers. Foreign components that would be used in the construction 
and repair activity (up to 5% of total purchases) include: anchor chain 
(7315.81), aluminum beams (7610.90), flexible tubing (8307.10), diesel 
engines (8408.10) and parts (8409.91, 8409.99), pumps (8413.11), 
turbochargers (8414.59), heat exchange/cooling units (8419.50), 
centrifuges (8421.19), filters (8421.23, 8421.29, 8421.31), fire 
suppression equipment (8424.20, 9032.89), rudders (8479.89), bow 
thrusters (8501.53), valves (8481.10, 8481.20, 8481.30, 8481.40, 
8481.80), stern tubes (8483.30, reduction gears (8483.40), transmission 
shaft grounding systems and seals (8483.90), generators (8501.63) and 
parts (8503.00), transformers (8504.34), speed drive controllers 
(8504.40), overfill alarms (8531.90), ACCU automated/steering systems 
(8537.10), generator sets (8502.39), liquid flow measurement 
instruments (9026.10) (duty rates: free - 5.7%).
    FTZ procedures could exempt TBSRC from customs duty payments on the 
foreign components used in export activity. On domestic sales, the 
company would be able to choose the duty rate that applies to finished 
oceangoing vessels (duty free) for the foreign-origin components noted 
above. Customs duties also could possibly be deferred or reduced on 
foreign status production equipment. The activity conducted under FTZ 
procedures would be subject to the ``standard shipyard restriction'' 
applicable to foreign-origin steel mill products, which requires that 
full customs duties be paid on such items.
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
(original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive 
Secretary at the following address: Office of the Executive Secretary, 
Room 2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230-0002. For further information, contact Pierre Duy 
at [email protected], or (202) 482-1378. The closing period for 
receipt of comments is May 16, 2008.
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board's Executive Secretary at 
the address listed above.

    Dated: April 8, 2008.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-8175 Filed 4-15-08; 8:45 am]
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