[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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