[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 43 (Monday, March 8, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13281-13282]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-04718]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-15-2021]


Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 31--Granite City, Illinois; Notification 
of Proposed Production Activity; M.M.O. Companies, Inc. (Disassembly of 
Firearms and Ammunition); Mascoutah and Edwardsville, Illinois

    America's Central Port District, grantee of FTZ 31, submitted a 
notification of proposed production activity to the FTZ Board on behalf 
of M.M.O. Companies, Inc. (M.M.O.), located in Mascoutah and 
Edwardsville, Illinois. The notification conforming to the requirements 
of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received on 
March 1, 2021.
    The M.M.O. facility is located within Subzone 31E. The facility is 
used for the disassembly of firearms and ammunition as well as the 
modification of receivers. 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 M.M.O. 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, M.M.O. would be able to choose the duty rates 
during customs entry procedures that apply to: Trigger groups, gas 
piston assemblies, sight assemblies, magazines, rail attachments, dust 
cover assemblies, muzzle device assemblies, bolt carriers, bolts, 
operating rods, cocking handles, carrying handles,

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foregrips/handguards, buttstocks, pistol grips and bayonet lugs from 
military rifles; empty ammunition cartridge casings; smokeless 
ammunition powder; ammunition primer; pistol receivers; pistol barrels; 
slides, hammers, trigger groups, sights, magazines, grips, bolt 
carriers and bolts from pistols; foregrips, buttstocks, pistol grips, 
trigger groups, gas piston assemblies, sight assemblies, magazines, 
rail attachments, dust cover assemblies, muzzle device assemblies, bolt 
carriers, bolts, carrying handles, operating rods, cocking handles, 
sporting rifle receivers, sporting rifle barrels and sporting barreled 
receivers from rifles; shotgun barrels; shotgun receivers; and, 
foregrips, buttstocks, pistol grips, trigger groups, gas piston 
assemblies, sight assemblies, magazines, rail attachments, dust cover 
assemblies, muzzle device assemblies, bolt carriers, bolts, carrying 
handles, operating rods and cocking handles for shotguns (duty rate 
ranges from duty-free to 4.2%). M.M.O. 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: Military 
rifles; machine guns; semi-automatic pistols; steel, aluminum and 
plastic pistol receivers; steel and plastic pistol barrels; 
semiautomatic rifles (centerfire); steel, aluminum and plastic rifle 
receivers; steel and aluminum rifle barrels; military shotguns; steel 
and aluminum shotgun barrels; semiautomatic shotguns; pump-action 
shotguns; steel, aluminum and plastic shotgun receivers; and, 5.56mm, 
7.62mm, .223, .50BMG, .308, 9mm, .45ACP and .40 ammunition (duty rate 
ranges from duty-free to 13%). The request indicates that certain 
materials/components are subject to 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 and sent to: 
[email protected]. The closing period for their receipt is April 19, 2021.
    A copy of the notification will be available for public inspection 
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].

    Dated: March 2, 2021.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-04718 Filed 3-5-21; 8:45 am]
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