[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 62 (Monday, April 1, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12194-12195]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-06215]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B-18-2019]
Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 47--Boone County, Kentucky; Notification
of Proposed Production Activity; BWF America, Inc. (Textile/Felt Filter
Bags and Other Filter Products for Industrial Use), Hebron, Kentucky
The Greater Cincinnati Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of FTZ 47,
submitted
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a notification of proposed production activity to the FTZ Board on
behalf of BWF America, Inc. (BWF), located in Hebron, Kentucky. The
notification conforming to the requirements of the regulations of the
FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received on March 21, 2019.
The applicant indicates that it will be submitting a separate
application for FTZ designation at the BWF facility under FTZ 47. The
facility is used for the production of textile/felt filter bags and
other filter products for industrial applications. 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 BWF from customs duty
payments on the foreign-status components used in export production. On
its domestic sales, for the foreign-status materials/components noted
below, BWF would be able to choose the duty rate during customs entry
procedures that applies to textile/felt industrial filter bags, press
filters, drum filters, press covers, filter belts, and filter discs
(duty rate 3.8%). BWF 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 components and materials sourced from abroad include: Hydrated
lime with fluorescent pigment tracing powder; plastic laminated film
seam tape; textile rollers/rings (polyester fibers needled together and
rolled into circular forms); fiberglass rolled goods (woven textile
fiberglass with a polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) membrane film laminated
as a top layer on the material); and, stainless steel wire cages (wire
frames used in air filtration to support the filtration bags). Foreign-
sourced components also include fiberglass thread and rolled felt of
polyester, polyphenylene sulfide, aramid, polyimide, PTFE, and acrylic,
each of which can have any one or more combinations of the following
coatings/finishes (for the purposes of product performance--primarily
heat and speed of emissions)--mechanical: singe, glaze; chemical: bath
treatments, Teflon, acrylic, fluorocarbon, silicone; and, lamination:
PTFE and PTFE membrane. The duty rates on components/materials range
from duty-free to 10.6%. The request indicates that certain materials/
components are subject to special duties under Section 301 of the Trade
Act of 1974 (Section 301), depending on the country of origin. The
applicable Section 301 decisions require subject merchandise to be
admitted to FTZs in privileged foreign status (19 CFR 146.41).
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 May 13, 2019.
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 Diane Finver at
[email protected] or (202) 482-1367.
Dated: March 25, 2019.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-06215 Filed 3-29-19; 8:45 am]
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