Federal Register, Volume 80
Issue 89 (Friday, May 8, 2015)
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 89 (Friday, May 8, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26537-26538]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing
Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-11220]
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DEPARTMENT OF
COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones
Board
[B-28-2015]
Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ)
82--Mobile, Alabama; Notification of
Proposed Production Activity; Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC
(Stainless
Steel Products); Calvert, Alabama
The City
of Mobile, grantee of FTZ 82, submitted a notification of
proposed production activity to the FTZ Board on behalf of
Outokumpu
Stainless USA, LLC (Outokumpu), located in Calvert, Alabama.
The
notification conforming to the requirements of the regulations
of
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the FTZ Board (15 CFR
400.22) was received on April 21, 2015.
The Outokumpu facility is located within Subzone
82I. The facility
is used for the production of stainless steel mill products.
Pursuant
to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ activity 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
Outokumpu from customs
duty payments on the foreign status materials/components used in
export
production. On its domestic sales, Outokumpu would be able to
choose
the duty rates during customs entry procedures that apply to:
Granulated slag (slag sand); slag, dross and scalings; stainless
steel
in ingots and other primary forms; hot-rolled stainless steel
coils;
hot-rolled stainless steel not in coils; cold-rolled stainless
steel
not in coils; and, stainless steel sheets and plates (duty-free)
for
the foreign status materials/components noted below. Customs
duties
also could possibly be
deferred or reduced on foreign status production
equipment.
The materials/components sourced from abroad
include: Fluorspar
containing by weight 97% or less of calcium fluoride;
ferromanganese
containing by weight more than 1% but less than 2% of carbon;
ferromanganese containing by weight not more than 1% of
carbon;
ferrosilicon containing by weight more than 80% but not more than
90%
silicon; ferrosilicon containing by weight more than 90%
silicon;
ferrochromium; ferronickel; ferro-niobium; ferro-boron; copper
waste
and scrap; unwrought nickel; unwrought nickel alloys;
unwrought
aluminum (other than alloy); unwrought molybdenum, including bars
and
rods obtained by simple sintering; unwrought titanium in rock or
powder
form; titanium castings; and, titanium in bars, rods, profiles
and
wires (duty rate ranges from duty-free to 15%). The request
indicates
that ferrosilicon may be subject to an antidumping/countervailing
duty
(AD/CVD) order. The FTZ Board's regulations (15 CFR 400.14(e))
require
that merchandise subject to
AD/CVD actions be admitted to the zone in
privileged foreign status (19 CFR 146.41). In addition, the
request
indicates that all foreign status ferrosilicon, molybdenum and
titanium
classified under HTSUS Subheadings 7202.21, 8102.94, 8108.20
and
8108.90 will be admitted to the subzone in privileged foreign
status
(19 CFR 146.41), thereby precluding inverted tariff benefits on
such
items.
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 June 17, 2015.
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 Web site, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
For further information, contact Elizabeth
Whiteman at
Elizabeth.Whiteman@trade.gov or (202) 482-0473.
Dated:
April 30, 2015.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-11220 Filed 5-7-15; 8:45 am]
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