Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: Rauch Industries, Inc.; consumer goods distribution facility,

[Federal Register: August 28, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 167)]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 41-98]

Foreign-Trade Zone 50--Long Beach, California Application for Subzone Status Rauch Industries, Inc. (Distribution of Consumer Goods) Mira Loma, California

An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) by the Board of Harbor Commissioners, Port of Long Beach, grantee of FTZ 50, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the consumer goods distribution facility of Rauch Industries, Inc., located in Mira Loma, California. 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 filedon August 20, 1998.

The Rauch facility (880,000 sq. ft. on 42 acres) is located at 11640 Harrell Street, Mira Loma, California, some 50 miles northeast of Long Beach. The facility (56 employees) is used for storage, inspection, packaging and distribution of a wide variety of consumer products such as table top, giftware and decorative accessories, seasonal products, flatware, hollowware, picture frames and photo albums, glassware, woodenware, ceramics, housewares, basket work, decorative textile items such as wall hangings and banners, music boxes, and jewelry. Plant activity also includes the occasional packaging or assembly of products into kits, but no authority is being sought for activity conducted under FTZ procedures that would result in a change in tariff classification.

Zone procedures would exempt Rauch from Customs duty payments on foreign products that are reexported. On its domestic sales, the company would be able to defer duty payments until merchandise is shipped from the plant. 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 appointed examiner to investigate the application and report to the Board.

Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions (original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is October 27, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15- day period (to November 12, 1998).

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

U.S. Department of Commerce Export Assistance Center, US&FCS Acting Director--Mary Delmege, One World Trade Center, #1670, Long Beach, California 90831 Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room

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3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230.

Dated: August 19, 1998. Dennis Puccinelli, Acting Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98-23236Filed8-27-98; 8:45 am]

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