[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 27 (Wednesday, February 10, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6635-6636]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-2988]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 9-2010]


Foreign-Trade Zone 33--Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Expansion of 
Manufacturing Authority, Subzone 33E--DNP IMS America Corporation 
(Thermal Transfer Ribbon Printer Rolls), Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Regional Industrial Development Corporation of 
Southwestern Pennsylvania, grantee of FTZ 33, requesting an expansion 
of the scope of manufacturing authority approved within Subzone 33E, on 
behalf of DNP IMS America Corporation (DNP) in Mount Pleasant, 
Pennsylvania. 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 
February 4, 2010.
    Subzone 33E (123 employees, 360 million square meters coating 
capacity) currently has authority for the manufacture of thermal 
transfer ribbon (TTR) (A(27f)-68-2009, 11/12/2009). The subzone 
(135,985 sq. ft., 3.12 acres) is located at 1001 Technology Drive, 
Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania.
    The current request involves the production of monochrome TTR 
printer rolls (some 336 million square meters capacity), using foreign-
sourced master rolls of TTR, representing 71-87% of the value of the 
finished product. The scope otherwise would remain unchanged.
    FTZ procedures could exempt DNP from customs duty payments on the 
foreign TTR master rolls used in export production. The company 
anticipates that some 10 percent of the plant's shipments will be 
exported. On its domestic sales, DNP would be able to choose the duty 
rate during customs entry procedures that apply to the finished TTR 
printer rolls (duty-free) for the foreign TTR master rolls (3.7%). FTZ 
procedures would further allow DNP to realize logistical benefits 
through the use of certain customs procedures and duty savings on scrap 
and waste for the new activity. The request indicates that the savings 
from FTZ procedures help improve the plant's international 
competitiveness.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, Diane Finver of the FTZ 
Staff is designated examiner to evaluate and analyze the facts and 
information presented in the application and case

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record and to report findings and recommendations 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 
April 12, 2010. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to [].
    A copy of the application 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 website, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
    For further information, contact Diane Finver at 
[email protected] or (202) 482-1367.

    Dated: February 4, 2010.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-2988 Filed 2-9-10; 8:45 am]
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