DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[A-30-90]
55 FR 47357
November 13, 1990
Foreign-Trade Subzone 15D Mobay Chemical Plant, Kansas City, Mo;
Determination of Scope of Manufacturing
TEXT: A request has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the
Board) by the Greater Kansas City Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of FTZ
15 and Subzone 15D, at the agricultural chemical manufacturing plant of
Mobay Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri, to determine whether certain
proposed manufacturing activity is within the scope of manufacturing
authority already approved by the Board.
On September 11, 1989, the Board authorized FTZ Subzone 15D at the Mobay
plant (Board Order 440, 54 FR 38413). Authority was granted for the
manufacture of pesticides (e.g., insecticides, herbicides and fungicides)
(duty rates: 3.5-20%) utilizing foreign materials such as cyanuric chloride,
benzenethial, surface agents, nitrogeneous compounds, ketones, nitriles and
halogenated, sulfonated and nitrated derivatives of aldehydes (duty rates:
7.9-12.5%).
The original application listed a number of finished pesticide products
which Mobay planned to produce under zone procedures. Mobay has informed
the Board that it now plans to produce several additional related finished
pesticide products for animal health applications (duty rates: 3.4-7.9%)
that were not specifically listed in the original application.
The request under review also indicates that the company plans to use
new, but related, foreign materials such as heterocyclic compounds with
oxygen, polycarboxylic acids and related products, and esters of inorganic
acids and related products (duty rates: 3.1-20.0%), in its production of
pesticides.
It appears that the proposed activity is within the range of activity
reviewed in the original application and authorized by Board Order 440, but
the FTZ Staff invites the comments of interested parties for consideration
in its review.
Comments must be submitted by December 10, 1990. They shall be addressed
as follows.
A copy of the request is available for public inspection at:
Office of the Executive Secretary,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
U.S. Department of Commerce,
14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Room 4213,
Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: November 1, 1990.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 90-26634 Filed 11-9-90; 8:45 am]
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