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Federal Register: July 13, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 133)NoticesPage 37514-37515From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Docket 36-98Foreign-Trade Zone 153-San Diego, California; Application For Foreign-Trade Subzone Status; Hewlett-Packard Company Computer and Related Electronic Products

An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) by the City of San Diego, California, grantee of FTZ 153, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the manufacturing and distribution facilities (computers, printers, measurement devices, medical products and related products) of the Hewlett-Packard Company (Hewlett-Packard), located in San Diego, California. The application was submitted pursuant to 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 filedon July 1, 1998.

The Hewlett-Packard facilities are located at five sites (15 bldgs/ 1,051,560

[Page 37515]square feet/96.15 acres in San Diego (San Diego County), California: Site 1 (9 bldgs/ 499,757 sq. ft./3.32 acres)--production and warehousing facility located at 16399 W. Bernardo Drive; Site 2 (1 bldg./52,413 sq. ft./3.32 acres)--administrative facility located at 16262 W. Bernardo Drive; Site 3 (1 bldg./202,408 sq. ft./5.65 acres)-- production and warehousing facility located at 16550 W. Bernardo Drive; Site 4 (2 bldgs/44,982 sq. ft./2.11 acres)--production and warehousing facility located at 15890-15910 Bernardo Center Drive; and Site 5 ( 2 bldgs/252,000 sq. ft./17.84 acres)--production and warehousing facility located at 12270 World Trade Drive.

The facilities (2,050 employees) are used for storage, manufacture, and distribution for import and export of computers and related devices, printers, electronic test and measurement devices, electronic medical products, and related electronic products and components. A number of components are purchased from abroad (an estimated 40% of value of manufactured products), including printed circuit boards, silicon wafers, rectifiers, integrated circuits, memory modules, CD-ROM drives, disk drives, scanners, hard drives, keyboards, monitors/ displays (CRT and LCD type), LEDs, speakers, microphones, belts, valves, bearings, plastic materials, industrial chemicals, sensors, filters, resistors, transducers, fuses, plugs, relays, ink cartridges, toner cartridges, switches, fasteners, cards, transformers, DC/electric motors, magnets, modems, batteries, cabinets, power supplies, cables, copper wire, power cords, optical fiber, casters, cases, labels, and packaging materials (1997 duty range: free-14.2%). (Full zone procedures are not being sought for certain linear motion bearings, display tubes and parts, optical fiber and related parts.)

Zone procedures would exempt Hewlett-Packard from Customs duty payments on foreign components used in export production. On its domestic sales, Hewlett-Packard would be able to choose the lower duty rate that applies to the finished products (free-13.2%, mostly duty- free) for the foreign components noted above. The application indicates that the savings from zone procedures 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 September 11, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period to September 28, 1998.

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

Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230. U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, 363 Greenwich Drive, Suite 230, San Diego, California 92122.

Dated: July 2, 1998. Dennis Puccinelli, Acting Executive Secretary.

FR Doc. 98-18601Filed7-10-98; 8:45 amBILLING CODE 3510-DS-P