DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket No. 24-86]
51 FR 26729
July 25, 1986
Foreign-Trade Zone 66 -- Wilmington, NC; Application for Subzone American
Hoist and Derrick Crane Manufacturing Plant
TEXT: An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the North Carolina State Department of Commerce, grantee of
FTZ 66, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the crane
manufacturing plant of American Hoist and Derrick Company (Amhoist) in
Wilmington, North Carolina, within the Wilmington Customs port of entry.
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 July 14, 1986.
The Amhoist plant is located on a 240-acre parcel off Vance St. in
Wilmington. It was recently built to replace the company's other 13 plants
and scale-down its manufacturing. The facility will produce truck, crawler,
locomotive, and revolving cranes, and related parts and equipment,
employing 700 persons. Parts and material to be sourced abroad include
engines, hydraulic motors, bearings, sleeving rings, sprockets, roller
track, wire rope, and steel plate, bar and tube. Amhoist historically has
exported over 40 percent of its output.
Zone procedures would allow Amhoist to avoid duty payments on the foreign
materials used in its exports. On its domestic sales, the company would be
allowed to take advantage of the same duty rate available to importers of
complete cranes. The duty rate for truck cranes is 3.9 percent, and for
crawler cranes, 2.4 percent, whereas the rates on foreign material range
from 3.2 to 11.0 percent. Zone savings will help improve the company's
international competitiveness.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, an examiners committee has
been appointed to investigate the application and report to the Board. The
committee consists of: Dennis Puccinelli (Chairman), Foreign-Trade Zones
Staff, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230; Howard Cooperman,
Deputy Assistant Regional Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service, Southeast
Region, 99 SE. 5th St., Miami, FL 33131; and Colonel Paul W. Woodbury,
District Engineer, U.S. Army Engineer District, Wilmington, P.O. Box 1890,
Wilmington, NC 28402.
Comments concerning the proposed subzone are invited in writing from
interested parties. They should be addressed to the Board's Executive
Secretary at the address below and postmarked on or before September 5, 1986.
A copy of the application is available for public inspection at each of
the following locations:
Port Director's Office,
U.S. Customs Service,
One Virginia Ave.,
Wilmington, NC 28401
Office of the Executive Secretary,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 1529,
14th & Pennsylvania NW.,
Washington, DC 20230
Dated: July 15, 1986.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 86-16781 Filed 7-24-86; 8:45 am]
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