[Federal Register: December 18, 1996 (Volume 61, Number 244)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 84-96]

Foreign-Trade Zone 167--Green Bay, WI, Application for Subzone
Status, Polaris Industries, Inc., Plant (Internal-Combustion Engines),
Osceola, WI

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by Brown County, Wisconsin, grantee of FTZ 167, requesting
special-purpose subzone status for the small internal-combustion engine
manufacturing plant of Polaris Industries, Inc. (Polaris), located in
Osceola, Wisconsin. The application was submitted pursuant to the
provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-
81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was
formally filed on December 11, 1996.
    The Polaris plant (45,000 sq. ft.) is located at 108 Industrial
Drive in Osceola (Polk County), Wisconsin, some 50 miles east of
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. The facility (30 employees) is used to
produce spark-ignition internal combustion engines (up to 1,050 cc in
size) to equip recreational vehicles (snowmobiles, all-terrain
vehicles, personal watercraft) that are manufactured in Polaris' other
U.S. plants. Components purchased from abroad include: crankshafts,
cylinder heads, Bendix assemblies, connecting rods, pistons, flywheels,

ignition coils, stators, housings, starters, recoil assemblies (1996
duty rate range: free-3.6%). The application indicates that 30-39
percent of all parts (by value) are purchased from U.S. suppliers.
    Zone procedures would exempt Polaris from Customs duty payments on
the foreign components used in export production. On its domestic
sales, Polaris would be able to choose the lower duty rate that applies
to the finished engines (duty free) for the foreign components noted
above. The application indicates that the savings from zone procedures
would help improve the plant's international competitiveness.

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    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ
Staff has been designated examiner to investigate the application and
report to the Board.
    Public comment on the application is invited from interested
parties. Submissions (original and three copies) shall be addressed to
the Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing
period for their receipt is February 18, 1997. Rebuttal comments in
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to March 3, 1997).
    A copy of the application and the accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

U.S. Export Assistance Center, 108 Federal Building, 110 South Fourth
Street, Minneapolis, MN 55401
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, Washington, DC 20230-0002

    Dated: December 11, 1996.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-32116 Filed 12-17-96; 8:45 am]
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