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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 7-96]

Foreign-Trade Zone 75--Phoenix, AZ, Application for Subzone
Status, Abbott Manufacturing, Inc., Plant (Infant Formula, Adult
Nutritional Products) Casa Grande, Arizona

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the City of Phoenix, grantee of FTZ 75, requesting
special-purpose subzone status for export activity at the infant
formula and adult nutritional products manufacturing plant of Abbott
Manufacturing, Inc., (AMI) (a subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories, Inc.),
located in Casa Grande, Arizona. 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 January 22, 1996.

    The AMI plant (590,000 sq.ft. on 161 acres) is located at 1250 West
Maricopa Highway, Casa Grande (Pinal County), Arizona, approximately 50
miles south of Phoenix. The facility (340 employees) is used to produce
milk and sugar-based infant formula and adult nutritional products for
export and the domestic market; however, zone procedures would be used
only for production for export. The production process involves
blending foreign, ex-quota milk powder and foreign, ex-quota sugar with
domestically-sourced oils, soy isolates, vitamins and minerals, and EZO
ends. Other foreign-sourced items that may be used in the export-
blending activity include: cocoa powder, pharmaceutical grade fat
emulsions, vitamins and minerals, and caseinates. All foreign-origin
milk and sugar would be re-exported as finished blended products.

    Zone procedures would exempt AMI from quota requirements and
Customs duty payments on the foreign milk and sugar products used in
the export activity. The application indicates that subzone status
would help improve the plant's international competitiveness.

    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ
Staff has been designated examiner to investigate the application and
report to the Board.

    Public comment on the application is invited from interested
parties. Submissions (original and three copies) shall be addressed to
the Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing
period for their receipt is April 1, 1996. Rebuttal comments in
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to April 16, 1996).

    A copy of the application and the accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce, District Office, Phoenix Plaza, Suite 970,
2901 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85012
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC 20230-0002.

    Dated: January 24, 1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-1999 Filed 1-31-96; 8:45 am]