[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 238 (Wednesday, December 13, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58591-58592]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-26848]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-76-2017]


Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 82--Mobile, Alabama; Notification of 
Proposed Production Activity, Aker Solutions, Inc., (Undersea 
Umbilicals), Mobile, Alabama

    The City of Mobile, grantee of FTZ 82, submitted a notification of 
proposed production activity to the FTZ Board on behalf of Aker 
Solutions, Inc. (Aker), located in Mobile, Alabama. The notification 
conforming to the requirements of the regulations of the

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FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received on December 5, 2017.
    Aker already has authority for the production of undersea 
umbilicals within Site 7 of FTZ 82. The current request would add 
finished products and foreign status materials/components to the scope 
of authority. Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), additional FTZ authority 
would be limited to the specific foreign-status materials/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 Aker from customs duty 
payments on the foreign-status materials/components used in export 
production. On its domestic sales, for the foreign-status materials/
components noted below and in the existing scope of authority, Aker 
would be able to choose the duty rates during customs entry procedures 
that apply to: Steel tube flying leads; hydraulic flying leads; cobra 
head terminations; umbilical termination assemblies; subsea 
distribution assemblies; mud mat assemblies; and, integrated controls 
jumpers/hydraulic bridge jumpers (duty rate ranges from duty-free to 
3.7%). Aker would be able to avoid duty on foreign-status components 
which become scrap/waste. Customs duties also could possibly be 
deferred or reduced on foreign-status production equipment.
    The materials/components sourced from abroad include: Super duplex 
steel tubes; electrical cables exceeding 1000V; electrical cables 
exceeding 600V; fiber optic cables; rotary disc valves; valve bodies, 
bonnets, gates, seats, stems, non-elastomeric seals, elastomeric seals 
and fastener hardware for rotary disc valves; clamp connector 
assemblies; inboard hub forgings of low alloy steel; inboard hub 
flanges of low alloy steel; outboard hub forgings of low alloy steel; 
hub retainer flanges of low alloy steel; pressure cap forgings of low 
alloy steel; rotary gate valves; hydraulic gate valves; vertical 
connection system guide cone weldments; left/right retainer ring 
elements for clamp connector assemblies; and, top ring elements for 
clamp connector assemblies (duty rate ranges from duty-free to 5.3%).
    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 January 22, 2018.
    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 website, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
    For further information, contact Elizabeth Whiteman at 
[email protected] or (202) 482-0473.

    Dated: December 6, 2017.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-26848 Filed 12-12-17; 8:45 am]
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