DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket No. 18-87]
52 FR 37809
October 9, 1987
Foreign-Trade Zone 100, Dayton, OH; Application for Subzone Chrysler Auto
Components Plant, Dayton
TEXT: An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Greater Dayton Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of FTZ
100, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the auto components plant
of the Chrysler Corporation in Dayton, Ohio. The application was submitted
pursuant to the provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as amended (19
USC 81a-81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was
formally filed on September 28, 1987.
The 60-acre facility, which employs 2000 persons, is located at 1600
Webster Street in Dayton. It is used to produce radiators, air conditioners,
heaters and electric fuel pumps. Some 2.3 percent of the components are
sourced abroad, including blower motors, fuel pump motors, and materials
for radiators.
Zone procedures would exempt Chrysler from Customs duties on the foreign
components that are reexported either as auto parts or in assembled autos.
On products shipped to U.S. auto assembly plants with subzone status, the
company would be able to take advantage of the same duty rate available to
importers of complete automobiles. The duty rates on components used at the
five plants range from 3.2 to 5.0 percent, whereas the rate on autos is 2.5
percent. The 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; John Nelson,
District Director, U.S. Customs Service, North Central Region, 6th floor,
Plaza Nine Bldg., 55 Erieview Plaza, Cleveland, OH 44114; and, Colonel
Robert L. Oliver, District Engineer, U.S. Army Engineer District Louisville,
P.O. Box 59, Louisville, KY 40201.
Comments concerning the proposed subzone are invited in writing from
interested parties. They shall be addressed to the Board's Executive
Secretary at the address below and postmarked on or before November 16, 1987.
A copy of the application is available for public inspection at each of
the following locations:
Port Directors Office,
U.S. Customs Service,
Dayton Int'l Airport,
Vandalia, OH 45377
Office of the Executive Secretary,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 1529,
Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: October 2, 1987.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 87-23483 Filed 10-8-87; 8:45 am]
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