Federal Register, Volume 79
Issue 108 (Thursday, June 5, 2014)
[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 108 (Thursday, June 5,
2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32532-32533]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office
[www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-13083]
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DEPARTMENT OF
COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones
Board
[B-42-2014]
Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ)
183--Austin, Texas, Notification of
Proposed Production Activity, Flextronics America, LLC, (Automated
Data
Processing Machines), Austin, Texas
Flextronics America, LLC (Flextronics) submitted a notification
of
proposed production activity to the FTZ Board for its facility
in
Austin, Texas within Subzone 183C. The notification conforming to
the
requirements of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22)
was
received on May 29, 2014.
Flextronics already has authority to produce
automated data
processing machines within Subzone 183C. The current request would
add
a finished product as well as foreign status materials/components
to
the scope of authority. Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), additional
FTZ
authority 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
Flextronics from
customs duty payments on the foreign status materials/components
used
in export production. On its domestic sales,
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Flextronics would be able
to choose the duty rates during customs entry
procedures that apply to exhaust subassemblies for automated
data
processing machines (duty-free) for the foreign status
materials/
components noted below and in the existing scope of authority.
Customs
duties also could possibly be deferred or reduced on foreign
status
production equipment.
The materials/components sourced from abroad
include: Supports;
gaskets; rubber rings; lock clamps; nuts; standoffs; pin
connectors;
bushings; holders; backer and button switches; connector
brackets;
housing gaskets; torsion bars; LP covers; spacers;
transformers;
inductors; ferrite EMI filters; wireless Bluetooth[supreg]
assemblies;
cover shielding; WiFi antenna assemblies; solid state drives;
resistors; flexible printed circuit boards; printed circuit
connectors;
terminals; connectors; integrated circuits; repeaters; power cords;
CPU
stiffener assemblies; filters; and, cables (duty rate ranges from
duty-
free to 5.7%).
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 July 15, 2014.
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:
June 2, 2014.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-13083 Filed 6-4-14; 8:45 am]
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