[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 98 (Friday, May 21, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 28554]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-12287]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 35-2010]
Foreign-Trade Zone 50 Long Beach, California, Application for
Subzone, Louisville Bedding Company (Household Bedding Products),
Ontario, California
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, requesting special-purpose subzone status for
the bedding products manufacturing facility of Louisville Bedding
Company (LBC) located in Ontario, California. 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 May 14, 2010.
The LBC plant (105 employees/9.7 acres) is located at 1200 South
Etiwanda Avenue in Ontario, California. The facility is used to
manufacture household bedding products, including mattress pads and
pillows (up to 10 million pillows and 2 million mattress pads annually)
for the U.S. market and export. LBC is requesting authority to utilize
foreign-origin wide roll (80 inches and wider), high thread count (180
threads per inch and higher) cotton, polyester, and synthetic woven
fabric and pillow shells (classified under HTSUS Headings 5208, 5210,
5512, 5513, and 6307; duty rate range: 7 14.9%) to be cut, sewn,
quilted and assembled into the bedding products noted above under FTZ
procedures. The company has also submitted an application to the Board
for subzone status for its Louisville, Kentucky, facilities (Docket 28-
2010, 75 FR 24572, 5-5-2010).
FTZ procedures could exempt LBC from customs duty payments on the
foreign-origin fabrics and pillow shells used in export production. On
its shipments for the domestic market, the finished household bedding
products would be entered for consumption from the proposed subzone
classified under HTSUS 9404.90, and LBC is seeking authority to elect
the various finished bedding product duty rates (4.4 - 7.3%, ad
valorem) for the foreign-origin fabric and pillow shell material
inputs. Domestic-status fibers would be used to fill the foreign pillow
shells. 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 evaluate and analyze the facts and
information presented in the application and case record and to report
findings and recommendations 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 July 20, 2010. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to August 4, 2010.
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 and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the
Board's website, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz. For further
information, contact Pierre Duy at [email protected] or (202) 482-
1378.
Dated: May 17, 2010.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-12287 Filed 5-20-10; 8:45 am]
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