[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 102 (Thursday, May 27, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29723-29724]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-12798]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 38-2010]
Foreign-Trade Zone 29--Louisville, KY; Application for Expansion
and Expansion of Manufacturing Authority; Subzone 29F; Hitachi
Automotive Products (USA), Inc. (Automotive Components)
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Louisville and Jefferson County Riverport Authority,
grantee of FTZ 29, on behalf of Hitachi Automotive Products (USA), Inc.
(HAP), operator of Subzone 29F, HAP plant, Harrodsburg, Kentucky,
requesting authority to expand the subzone and to expand the scope of
FTZ manufacturing authority to include new manufacturing capacity. The
application was submitted pursuant to the provisions of the Foreign-
Trade Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and section
400.28(a)(2) of the Board's regulations (15 CFR part 400). It was
formally filed on May 20, 2010.
Subzone 29F was approved by the Board in 1990 with authority
granted for the manufacture of automotive components at HAP's
manufacturing plant located at 955 Warwick Road (Site 1) (50 acres) in
Harrodsburg, Kentucky (Board Order 497, 56 FR 674, 1-8-91). Activity at
the facility (624 employees) includes machining, assembly, testing,
warehousing, and distribution of various automotive components,
including mass air sensors, throttle bodies and chambers, starter
motors, motor/generator units, alternators, distributors, other static
converters, inverter modules, rotors/stators, ignition coils,
electronic sensors and modules, fuel injectors, emissions control
equipment, valves, pumps, and electronic control units for engines and
transmissions (capacity--up to 8.5 million units annually). Components
and materials sourced from abroad (representing 80 percent of the
finished automotive components' material value) include: adhesives,
plastic fittings, plastic and rubber belts, fasteners, gaskets/seals/o-
rings, metal fittings, labels, plastic wedging, springs, brackets,
plates, filters, bearings, air pumps/compressors, valves, switches,
electric motors, tubes/pipes/profiles, aluminum plugs, transformers,
crankshafts, camshafts, gears, pulleys, couplings, clutches, parts of
electric motors, pinions, magnets, ignition parts, diodes, transistors,
resistors, semiconductors, liquid crystal devices, electrical
instruments, navigation apparatuses, capacitors, printed/integrated
circuits, fuses, rheostats, connectors, terminals, piezoelectric
crystals, regulators, lamps, wires, cables, cylinders, plungers,
insulators, brushes, brackets, shafts, and measuring instruments (duty
rate range: Free--9.0%).
The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the subzone to
include two new warehouse facilities: Site 2--(68,000 sq. ft.) 601
Robinson Road in Harrodsburg, Kentucky; and Site 3--(61,010 sq. ft.)
110 Morgan Soaper Road, Harrodsburg. The company will be expanding its
manufacturing plant (Site 1) to increase production area that would add
up to 720,000 additional units to the facility's capacity. The
applicant also requests that the scope of FTZ manufacturing authority
be expanded to include the additional production capacity for the
manufacture of high pressure, direct-injection fuel pumps (new combined
output would be 9.22 million units per year). The expanded operations
will involve a continuation of HAP's utilization of both foreign-
sourced and domestic materials and components.
Expanded FTZ procedures could continue to exempt HAP from customs
duty payments on the foreign-origin components used in production for
export (about 30% of shipments). On its domestic shipments, the company
would be able to elect the duty rate that applies to finished
automotive components (free--6.7%) for the foreign-origin inputs noted
above. Subzone status would further allow
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HAP to realize logistical benefits through the use of weekly customs
entry procedures. Customs duties also could possibly be deferred or
reduced on foreign status production equipment. HAP would also be
exempt from duty payments on foreign inputs that become scrap during
the production process.
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 26, 2010. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to August 10, 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 Web site, which is accessible via http://www.trade.gov/ftz. For
further information, contact Pierre Duy at [email protected] or
(202) 482-1378.
Dated: May 20, 2010.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-12798 Filed 5-26-10; 8:45 am]
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