[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 37 (Monday, February 27, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 11895]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-03777]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-13-2017]


Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 7--Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; Notification 
of Proposed Production Activity; Romark Global Pharma, LLC; Subzone 7P; 
Manat[iacute], Puerto Rico (Pharmaceuticals)

    Romark Global Pharma, LLC (Romark), operator of Subzone 7P, 
submitted a notification of proposed production activity to the FTZ 
Board for its facility within Subzone 7P, in Manat[iacute], Puerto 
Rico. The notification conforming to the requirements of the 
regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received on February 
6, 2017.
    The Romark facility, currently under construction, will be used to 
produce finished pharmaceutical products and active ingredients. 
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 Romark from customs 
duty payments on the foreign-status components used in export 
production. On its domestic sales, Romark would be able to choose the 
duty rates during customs entry procedures that apply to Alinia[supreg] 
(nitazoxanide) tablets and oral suspension, nitazoxanide controlled 
release bilayer tablets, and nitazoxanide (active pharmaceutical 
ingredient) (duty rates--free and 6.5%) 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: 
Croscarmellose sodium; microcrystalline cellulose; plastic bottles; 
container labels; glass bottles; plastic caps; paper board cartons; 
colloidal silicon dioxide; cotton coil packaging; desiccant bags; 
dibasic calcium phosphate; hydroxypropyl cellulose; 
hydroxypropylmethylcellulose; hypromellose; product information paper 
inserts; magnesium stearate; pregelatinized corn starch; anhydrous 
citric acid; corn starch; strawberry flavoring with alcohol; sodium 
carboxymethylcellulose; nitazoxanide; sodium benzoate; sodium citrate 
dihydrate; sodium starch glycolate; talc; purified water; and, xanthan 
gum (duty rates range from free to 6.5%).
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
shall be addressed to the FTZ Board's Executive Secretary at the 
address below. The closing period for their receipt is April 10, 2017.
    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 
FTZ Board's Web site, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
    For further information, contact Diane Finver at 
[email protected] or (202) 482-1367.

    Dated: February 21, 2017.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-03777 Filed 2-24-17; 8:45 am]
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