[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 71 (Wednesday, April 15, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17454-17455]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-8635]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[A(32c)-01-2009]


Foreign-Trade Zone 7--Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; Scope Clarification 
Request--Foreign-Trade Zone 7I; Abbott Pharmaceuticals P.R. Ltd.--
Barceloneta, Puerto Rico (Pharmaceutical Products)

    A request for clarification of scope has been submitted to the 
Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) by Abbott Pharmaceuticals P.R. 
Ltd. (Abbott), operator of Foreign-Trade Subzone 7I at Abbott's 
pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico.
    A grant of authority for Abbott's subzone was issued on December 
23, 2005, with manufacturing authority for certain antibiotics and 
Depakote, a treatment for epilepsy, migraines, and bipolar disease 
(duty free), utilizing the foreign materials Beta Carb, 
hexamethyldisilozine, and hypromellose phthalate (duty rates: 3.7%--
5.2%). Abbott has informed the Board that it now plans to produce other 
related pharmaceutical products that were listed in the application as 
finished pharmaceutical products, intermediates and chemical inputs for 
possible future production (Board Order 1432, 12/23/2005, 71 FR 1733, 
1/11/2006).
    Specifically, the company plans to make a HIV-AIDS protease 
inhibitor (HTSUS 3004.90--duty free) from the foreign materials sodium 
stearyl fumarate and copovodine (HTSUS 2917.19--duty rate 6.5% and 
HTSUS 3905.91--5.3%, respectively). Abbott also plans to make choline 
fenofibrate, a pharmaceutical intermediate (HTSUS 3003.90--duty free), 
from the foreign input choline hydroxide (HTSUS 2923.10--duty rate 
3.7%).
    The FTZ staff invites the comments of interested parties for 
consideration in its review. Submissions shall be addressed to the 
Board's Executive Secretary at the address listed below. The closing 
period for their receipt is May 15, 2009.
    A copy of the request will be available for public inspection at 
the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the 
Board's Web site, which is accessible via http://www.trade.gov/ftz. For 
further information, contact Diane Finver at [email protected], 
or (202) 482-1367.


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    Dated: April 9, 2009.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E9-8635 Filed 4-14-09; 8:45 am]
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