[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 79 (Wednesday, April 23, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21903-21904]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-8814]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

(Docket 24-2008)


Foreign-Trade Zone 161 Sedgwick County, Kansas, Application for 
Subzone StatusHawker Beechcraft Corporation (Aircraft Manufacturing), 
Wichita and Salina, Kansas

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Board of County Commissioners of Sedgwick County, 
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 161, requesting special-purpose 
subzone status for the aircraft manufacturing facilities of Hawker 
Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) located in Wichita and Salina, Kansas. 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 April 17, 2008.
    The HBC facilities are as follows: Proposed Site 1, located at 9709 
E. Central Avenue, in Wichita (910 acres, 5,700 employees); and, 
Proposed Site 2, located at 2625 Scanlan Avenue, in Salina (56 acres, 
430 employees). The facilities are used for manufacturing various types 
of aircraft (HTSUS 8802.40, with a weight greater than 15,000kg) (up to 
750 aircraft annually). The Wichita facilities are used for final 
assembly of aircraft as well as other manufacturing support activities, 
while the Salina facilities are used primarily for manufacturing and 
fabrication of aircraft assemblies and subassemblies. Imported 
components and raw materials account for approximately 34 percent of 
the value of inputs used in manufacturing. Parts and components that 
may be imported into the proposed subzone sites for manufacturing 
include: oxygen (2804.40); rubber adhesives or polymers (3506.91); 
acrylic polymers (3906.10); flexible plastic tubing (3917.31); non-
reinforced plastic tubing (3917.32); other plastic tubing (3917.39); 
plastic tubing with fittings (3917.33); self-adhesive tape (3919.10, 
3919.90); plastic sheets (3921.13); plastic handles (3926.30); plastic 
articles (3926.90); vulcanized rubber plates (4008.11); vulcanized 
rubber forms (4008.19); reinforced rubber tubes without fittings 
(4009.41); reinforced rubber tubes with fittings (4009.42); vulcanized 
rubber gaskets (4016.93); vulcanized rubber articles (4016.99); bags 
and cases (4202.92); wood boxes (4420.90); rubberized textile fabric 
(5906.99); lifejackets and lifebelts (6307.20); laminated safety glass 
(7007.21); glass envelopes for lighting (7011.10); glass sheets 
(7019.39); glass fibers and articles (7019.90); articles of glass 
(7020.00); imitation jewelry (7117.90); cast fittings of iron and steel 
(7307.19); stainless steel flanges (7307.21); threaded elbows 
(7307.22); tube and pipe fittings (7307.29); threaded elbows and 
sleeves (7307.92); screws, nuts and bolts (7318.15); threaded articles 
(7318.19); spring washers (7318.21); cotter and cotter pins (7318.24); 
other non-threaded articles (7318.29); other springs and leaves of iron 
and steel (7320.90); articles of iron and steel wire (7326.20); iron 
and steel hangers and supports (7326.90); stranded copper wire with or 
without fittings (7413.00); iron, copper and steel washers and spring 
washers (7415.21); non-alloy aluminum pipes and tubes (7608.10); other 
alloy aluminum pipes and tubes (7608.20); aluminum pipe or tube 
fittings (7609.00); aluminum fasteners (7616.10); aluminum articles 
(7616.99); tungsten articles (8101.99); titanium articles (8108.90); 
pliers, pincers, tweezers and similar (8203.20); hand-operated spanners 
and wrenches and their parts (8204.11); socket wrenches and their parts 
with or without handles, drives and extensions (8204.20); other hand 
tools (8205.59); vices, clamps and similar and their parts (8205.70); 
tools and their parts for boring and broaching (8207.60); other 
interchangeable tools (8207.90); locks (8301.40); parts of base-metal 
padlocks and locks (8301.60); base- metal hinges and parts (8302.10); 
base-metal mountings (8302.49); base-metal hooks, eyes and eyelets 
(8308.10); other base-metal stoppers, caps and lids and other packing 
accessories (8309.90); fuel and other pumps (8413.30); air or vacuum 
pumps (8414.59); window, wall or split-system air-conditioning machines 
and parts (8415.10); air-conditioning machines not incorporating a 
refrigeration unit (8415.83); parts of air-conditioning machines 
(8415.90); oil or fuel filters for internal combustion engines 
(8421.23); other electromechanical appliances with self-contained 
motors (8479.89); pressure-reducing valves and their parts (8481.10); 
valves for oleo-hydraulic and pneumatic transmissions (8481.20); iron, 
copper and steel check valves (8481.30); safety or relief valves 
(8481.40); other hand-operated appliances and parts (8481.80, 8481.90); 
ball bearings (8482.10); spherical roller bearings (8482.30); other 
ball or roller bearings and parts (8482.99); bearing housings/plain 
shaft bearings (8483.30); gears, gearing and other transmission 
elements (8483.40); flywheels, pulleys and pulley blocks (8483.50); 
clutch and shaft couplings (8483.60); toothed-wheels, chain sprockets 
and other transmission elements (8483.90); gaskets and similar joints 
of metal sheeting (8484.10, 8484.90); other machine parts (8487.90); 
single-phase AC motors (8501.40); electric motors and generators 
(8501.63, ); electric motor and generator parts (8503.00); static 
convertors (8504.40); electrical transformers, static convertors, 
conductors and parts (8504.50); starter- motors and starter-generators 
(8511.40); lead-acid storage batteries (8507.20); voltage and voltage-
current regulators and cut-out relays (8511.80); audio frequency 
electric amplifiers (8518.40); electric sound amplifier sets (8518.50); 
optical media (8523.40); antennas, antenna reflectors and parts 
(8529.10); burglar and fire alarms (8531.10); electrical signaling 
equipment (8531.80); printed circuit assembly parts (8531.90); fuses 
(8536.10); circuit breakers (8536.30); voltage relays (8536.41, 
8536.49); other switches (8536.50); lamp-holders (8536.61); other lamp-
holders, plugs and sockets (8536.69); other electrical apparatus for 
switching circuits or making connections (8536.90); electrical board 
panels and consoles (8537.10); parts for electrical apparatus 
(8538.90); electrical filament or discharge lamps and parts (8539.29, 
8539.39); electrical machines and parts (8543.70, 8543.90); copper 
winding wire (8544.11); other winding wire (8544.19); coaxial cable and 
electric conductors (8544.20); ignition and other wiring sets 
(8544.30); electrical conductors (8544.49);

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insulating fittings for electrical machines (8547.90); parachutes and 
rotochutes (8804.00); corrective or protective spectacles and goggles 
(9004.90); lasers (9013.20); compasses (9014.10); aeronautical 
navigation instruments and appliances (9014.20); surveying instruments 
and appliances (9015.80); calculating instruments (9017.20); breathing 
appliances and gas masks (9020.00); thermometers and pyrometers 
(9025.19); hydrometers (9025.80); speedometers, tachometers and 
stroboscopes (9029.20); instruments for checking voltage and current 
(9030.39); instruments to measure and check instruments and their parts 
(9031.80, 9031.90); thermostats (9032.10); hydraulic and pneumatic 
instruments (9032.81); automatic voltage and voltage-current regulators 
(9032.89); electric lamps and lighting fittings (9405.20, 9405.40); 
illuminated signs and name plates (9405.60); plastic parts for lamps 
and lighting fixtures (9405.92, 9405.99); and, ball-point pens 
(9608.10). The duty rates on the imported components range from duty-
free to 15 percent.
    This application requests authority for HBC to conduct the 
manufacturing activity under FTZ procedures, which would exempt the 
company from customs duty payments on the imported components used in 
export production. Approximately 50 percent of production is exported. 
On domestic sales, the company could choose the lower duty rate (duty-
free) that applies to the finished product for the imported components 
used in manufacturing. HBC may also realize savings related to direct 
delivery and weekly customs entry procedures. The company will also 
realize savings on the elimination of duties on materials that become 
scrap/waste during manufacturing. Additionally, customs duties could 
possibly be deferred or reduced on foreign status production equipment. 
The application indicates that the FTZ-related savings would improve 
the plant's international competitiveness.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, Christopher Kemp of the 
FTZ staff is 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 listed below. The closing period for their 
receipt is June 23, 2008. Rebuttal comments in response to material 
submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the 
subsequent 15-day period (to July 7, 2008).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available at each of the following addresses: U. S. Department of 
Commerce Export Assistance Center, 150 North Main Street, Suite 200, 
Wichita, Kansas; 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. For further information contact 
Christopher Kemp at [email protected] or (202) 482-0862.

    Dated: April 17, 2008.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-8814 Filed 4-22-08; 8:45 am]
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