[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 7, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 26434]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-11837]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-28-2017]


Foreign-Trade Zone 186--Waterville, Maine Application for 
Production Authority, Flemish Master Weavers, Subzone 186A, (Machine-
Made Woven Area Rugs), Sanford, Maine

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board by the City of Waterville, Maine, grantee of FTZ 186, requesting 
production authority on behalf of Flemish Master Weavers (FMW), located 
within Subzone 186A in Sanford, Maine. The application conforming to 
the requirements of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.23) 
was docketed on April 18, 2017.
    The FMW facility (127 employees, 4.08 acres) is used for the 
production of machine-made woven area rugs. FMW already has restricted 
FTZ authority to produce area rugs using polypropylene and polyester 
yarns in privileged foreign status (19 CFR 146.41), which precludes 
inverted tariff benefits on those inputs (see 81 FR 51850, August 5, 
2016).
    The pending application requests authority for FMW to use imported 
continuous filament polypropylene yarn in non-privileged foreign status 
(19 CFR 146.42). If the application were approved, on its domestic 
sales, FMW would be able to choose the duty rate during customs entry 
procedures that applies to machine-made woven area rugs (duty free) for 
the imported continuous filament polypropylene yarn (otherwise dutiable 
at 8%). Customs duties also could possibly be deferred or reduced on 
foreign-status production equipment. The request indicates that the 
savings from FTZ procedures would help improve the plant's 
international competitiveness.
    In accordance with the FTZ 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 record and to report 
findings and recommendations to the FTZ Board.
    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 August 7, 2017. 
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the 
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period 
to August 21, 2017.
    A copy of the application 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: June 2, 2017.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-11837 Filed 6-6-17; 8:45 am]
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