[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 46 (Friday, March 7, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 12374]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-4550]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 12-2008]
Foreign-Trade Zone 265 - Conroe, Texas, Application for Subzone
Status, Sondex, L.P. (Oil and Gas Field Services Equipment), Conroe,
Texas
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the City of Conroe, Texas, grantee of FTZ 265,
requesting special-purpose subzone status for the oil and gas field
services equipment facility of Sondex, L.P. (Sondex), located in
Conroe, Texas. The application was submitted pursuant to the provisions
of the FTZ Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of
the Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was formally filed on February 21,
2008.
The proposed subzone would include Sondex=s warehousing facility
(20 employees, 20,000 sq. ft., 10 acres) at a site in Conroe, Texas,
located at 2418 North Frazier Street. The facility is used for the
warehousing, distribution, testing and repair of foreign-origin and
domestic downhole-wireline equipment and measuring-while- drilling
equipment and parts (duty rates range from duty-free to 2.5 percent)
for the U.S. market and export. FTZ procedures would be utilized to
support Sondex=s distribution activity that competes with facilities
located abroad.
FTZ procedures would exempt Sondex from Customs duty payments on
foreign products that are re-exported. Some twenty percent of the
facility's shipments are exported. On domestic sales, the company would
be able to defer payments until merchandise is shipped from the
facility and entered for U.S. consumption. Sondex also plans to realize
logistical benefits through the use of weekly customs entry procedures.
The application indicates that all of the above-cited savings from FTZ
procedures would help improve the facility's international
competitiveness.
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 3 copies) shall be addressed to the
Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing period
for their receipt is May 6, 2008. Rebuttal comments in response to
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during
the subsequent 15-day period to May 21, 2008.
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:U.S.
Department of Commerce Export Assistance Center, 1919 Smith Street,
Suite 1026, Houston, Texas 77002; and the Office of the Executive
Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room
2111, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.
For further information, contact Kathleen Boyce at (202) 482-1346
or [email protected].
Dated: February 21, 2008.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-4550 Filed 3-6-08; 8:45 am]
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