[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 119 (Thursday, June 19, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34916-34917]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-13883]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Docket 40-2008


Foreign-Trade Zone 50 - Long Beach, CA, Request for Manufacturing 
Authority, Phoenix MC, Inc. d/b/a Phoenix Motorcars, Inc. (Motor 
Vehicles)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Board of Harbor Commissioners of the Port of Long 
Beach, grantee of FTZ 50, pursuant to Section 400.32(b)(1) of the 
Board's regulations (15 CFR Part 400), requesting authority on behalf 
of Phoenix MC, Inc. d/b/a Phoenix Motorcars, Inc. (PMI), to assemble 
light-duty passenger vehicles under FTZ

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procedures within FTZ 50. It was formally filed on June 13, 2008.
    The PMI facility (24,500 sq.ft./15 employees) is located at 401 S. 
Doubleday Avenue (Site 1) in Ontario, California. The facility, 
currently under construction, will be used to produce electric-powered, 
light-duty passenger vehicles (sport utility trucks, sport utility 
vehicles; HTSUS 8703.90; duty rate: 2.5%) for export and the domestic 
market. At full capacity, the facility (about 50 employees) will 
assemble up to approximately 30,000 vehicles annually. Under FTZ 
procedures, PMI would admit foreign semi-finished vehicle bodies (HTSUS 
8707.10, duty rate: 2.5%) to FTZ 50 to be equipped with domestic 
electric drive train systems and batteries.
    FTZ procedures would exempt PMI from customs duty payments on the 
foreign vehicle bodies used in export production. On its domestic 
sales, PMI would be able to defer payment of customs duties on the 
foreign vehicle bodies until the finished motor vehicles are entered 
for consumption from the zone. Customs duties also could possibly be 
deferred or reduced on foreign status production equipment. The 
application indicates that the savings from FTZ procedures would help 
improve the facility's international competitiveness.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, Pierre Duy of the FTZ 
Staff is designated examiner to investigate the application and report 
to the Board.
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
(original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive 
Secretary at the following address: Office of the Executive Secretary, 
Room 2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230-0002. The closing period for receipt of comments 
is August 18, 2008. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period toSeptember 2, 2008.
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board's Executive Secretary at 
the address listed above. For further information, contact Pierre Duy, 
examiner, at: [email protected], or (202) 482-1378.

    Dated: June 13, 2008.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary,
[FR Doc. E8-13883 Filed 6-18-08; 8:45 am]
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