[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 191 (Thursday, October 2, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59473-59474]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-23547]


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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-69-2014]


Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 155--Calhoun/Victoria Counties, Texas; 
Notification of Proposed Production Activity; Tenaris Bay City, Inc. 
(Seamless Steel Tubes and Pipes); Bay City, Texas

    The Calhoun-Victoria Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of FTZ 155, 
submitted a notification of proposed production activity to the FTZ 
Board on behalf of Tenaris Bay City, Inc. (Tenaris), located in Bay 
City, Texas. The notification conforming to the requirements of the 
regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received on September 
25, 2014.
    The applicant indicates that a separate application for subzone 
designation at the Tenaris facility will be submitted. Any such 
application would be processed under Section 400.38 of the Board's 
regulations. The Tenaris facility is used for the production of 
seamless steel tubes and pipes used in oil and gas production as well 
as other industrial applications (oil country tubular good casings and 
line pipes). Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ activity would be 
limited to the specific foreign-status materials and components and 
specific finished products described in the submitted notification (as 
described below) and subsequently authorized by the FTZ Board.
    Production under FTZ procedures could exempt Tenaris from customs 
duty payments on the foreign status components used in export 
production. On its domestic sales, Tenaris would be able to choose the 
duty rates during customs entry procedures that apply to: Line pipes of 
iron or non-alloy steel; line pipes of other alloy steel; threaded or 
coupled casings of iron or non-alloy steel; non-threaded or non-coupled

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casings of iron or non-alloy steel; threaded or coupled casings of 
other alloy steel; non-threaded or non-coupled casings of other alloy 
steel; tubing of iron or non-alloy steel; tubing and casing of other 
alloy steel; and, tubing and casing of other alloy steel used in heat 
exchangers or refining furnaces (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: Billets 
(round bars-alloy/steel); non-alloy round steel bars; couplings; 
plastic protectors and caps; thread compounds; corrosion inhibitors; 
solvents; thinners; non-threaded and non-coupled casings of iron or 
non-alloy steel; non-threaded and non-coupled casings of other alloy 
steel; tubing of iron or non-alloy steel; and, tubing of other alloy 
steel (duty rate ranges from duty-free to 6.5%).
    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 November 12, 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 28, 2104.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-23547 Filed 10-1-14; 8:45 am]
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