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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 919]
Approval of Manufacturing Activity within Foreign-Trade Zone 62
Brownsville, TX, Amfels, Inc. (Offshore Drilling Platforms/
Shipbuilding)
Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of
June 18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u)(the Act), the Foreign-
Trade Zones Board (the Board) adopts the following Order:
Whereas, the Brownsville Navigation District, grantee of FTZ 62,
has requested authority under Sec. 400.32(b)(1) of the Board's
regulations on behalf of AMFELS, Inc., to manufacture mobile offshore
drilling platforms under zone procedures within FTZ 62, Brownsville,
Texas (filed 2-25-97, FTZ Docket A(32b1)-1-97; Doc. 67-97, assigned 8-
20-97)
Whereas, pursuant to Sec. 400.32(b)(1), the Commerce Department's
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance has the authority to act
for the Board in making such decisions on new manufacturing/processing
activity under certain circumstances, including situations where the
proposed activity is the same, in terms of products involved, to
activity recently approved by the Board (Sec. 400.32(b)(1)(i)); and,
Whereas, the FTZ Staff has reviewed the proposal, taking into
account the criteria of Sec. 400.31, and the Executive Secretary has
recommended approval;
Now, therefore, the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance,
acting for the Board pursuant to Sec. 400.32(b)(1), concurs in the
recommendation and hereby approves the request subject to the Act and
the Board's regulations, including Sec. 400.28, and further subject to
the following conditions: (1) Any foreign steel mill products admitted
to FTZ 62 for the AMFELS, Inc., activity including plate, angles,
shapes, channels, rolled steel stock, bars, pipes and tubes, not
incorporated into merchandise otherwise classified, and which is used
in manufacturing, shall be subject to Customs duties in accordance with
applicable law, if the same item is then being produced by a domestic
steel mill; and, (2) in addition to the annual report, AMFELS, Inc.,
shall advise the Board's Executive Secretary (Sec. 400.28(a)(3)) as to
significant new contracts with appropriate information concerning
foreign purchases otherwise dutiable, so that the Board may consider
whether any foreign dutiable items are being imported for manufacturing
in the zone primarily because of subzone status and whether the Board
should consider requiring Customs duties to be paid on such items.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 5th day of September 1997.
Jeffrey P. Bialos,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance,
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 97-24468 Filed 9-15-97; 8:45 am]
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