[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 19 (Monday, January 30, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5853-5854]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-01828]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket B-52-2020]


Foreign-Trade Zone 38--Spartanburg County, South Carolina, 
Application for Production Authority, Teijin Carbon Fibers, Inc. 
(Polyacrylonitrile-Based Carbon Fiber), Opening of Comment Period on 
Submission Containing New Evidence

    The FTZ Board is inviting public comment on a submission containing 
new evidence pertaining to the application, as amended, on behalf of 
Teijin Carbon Fibers, Inc. (TCF), requesting production authority 
within FTZ 38 in Greenwood, South Carolina. Specifically, the amended 
application requests removal of the restriction requiring the reexport 
of foreign status 24,000 filament tow polyacrylonitrile fiber used to 
produce carbon fiber.
    On January 20, 2023, TCF made a submission to the FTZ Board that

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included new evidence in response to the examiner's preliminary 
recommendation not to approve the requested production authority. In 
response to this invitation for public comment, parties may also 
address argument or evidence presented in the application and in other 
prior submissions in this proceeding. TCF's submission on the 
preliminary recommendation, application and other prior submissions may 
be viewed in the Online FTZ Information System on the FTZ Board's 
website (accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz).
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
shall be addressed to the FTZ Board's Executive Secretary and sent to: 
[email protected].
    The closing period for their receipt is March 1, 2023. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to March 16, 
2023).
    For further information, contact Diane Finver at 
[email protected].

    Dated: January 25, 2023.
Elizabeth Whiteman,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023-01828 Filed 1-27-23; 8:45 am]
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