[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 181 (Thursday, September 18, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 56058]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-22219]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-63-2014]


Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 44--Morris County, New Jersey, 
Notification of Proposed Production Activity, Panasonic System 
Communications Company of North America, (Laptop Computers), Rockaway, 
New Jersey

    The New Jersey Department of State, grantee of FTZ 44, submitted a 
notification of proposed production activity to the FTZ Board on behalf 
of Panasonic System Communications Company of North America (PSCNA), 
located in Rockaway, New Jersey. The notification conforming to the 
requirements of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was 
received on September 8, 2014.
    The PSCNA facility is located within Subzone 44G. The facility is 
used for the assembly, customization, repackaging and distribution of 
laptop computers. Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ activity would be 
limited to the specific foreign-status materials and components and 
specific finished product described in the submitted notification (as 
described below) and subsequently authorized by the FTZ Board.
    Production under FTZ procedures could exempt PSCNA from customs 
duty payments on the foreign status components used in export 
production. On its domestic sales, PSCNA would be able to choose the 
duty rates during customs entry procedures that apply to laptop 
computers (duty-free) for the foreign status inputs noted below. 
Customs duties also could possibly be deferred or reduced on foreign 
status production equipment.
    The components and materials sourced from abroad include: Plastic 
labels and parts; leather laptop cases; packaging materials; paper and 
other labels; laptops; keyboards and laptop parts; laptop disk drives; 
data storage units; control and adaptor units; magnetic and optical 
readers; printed circuit assemblies; static converters (such as 
rectifiers); inductors for power supplies; printed circuit assemblies 
of electrical transformers, static converters and inductors; lithium-
ion batteries; machines for the reception, conversion and transmission 
or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and 
routing apparatus; apparatus for transmission or reception of voice, 
images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired 
or wireless network; cards incorporating a magnetic strip; recorded 
optical media; semiconductor media; solid-state non-volatile storage 
devices; television cameras; digital still image video cameras; radio 
navigational aid apparatus, other than radar; monitors, other than 
cathode-ray tube monitors; color video monitors with flat panel 
screens; antennas and antenna reflectors and parts; boards, panels, 
consoles, desks and cabinets equipped with apparatus for electric 
control, for a voltage not exceeding 1,000; mercury or sodium vapor 
discharge lamps; coaxial and Ethernet cables; camera lenses; and, 
testing and calibration equipment (duty rate ranges from duty-free to 
5.8%).
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
shall be addressed to the Board's Executive Secretary at the address 
below. The closing period for their receipt is October 28, 2014.
    A copy of the notification will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, 
Room 21013, 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 www.trade.gov/ftz.
    For Further Information Contact: Elizabeth Whiteman at 
[email protected] or (202) 482-0473.

    Dated: September 10, 2014.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-22219 Filed 9-17-14; 8:45 am]
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