Foreign-Trade Zone 114; Peoria, IL Application for Subzone Status; Revere Ware Corporation Plant (Stainless/Aluminum Cookware) Clinton, IL

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 6-94]

Foreign-Trade Zone 114; Peoria, IL Application for Subzone

Status; Revere Ware Corporation Plant (Stainless/Aluminum Cookware)

Clinton, IL

An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board

(the Board) by the Economic Development Council for the Peoria Area,

grantee of FTZ 114, Peoria, Illinois, requesting special-purpose

subzone status for the stainless steel and aluminum household cookware

manufacturing plant of the Revere Ware Corporation (Revere), located in

Clinton, Illinois. 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 February 15, 1994.

The Revere plant (800,000 sq.ft./48 acres/430 employees) is located

at 1000 South Sherman Street in Clinton (Dewitt County), Illinois, some

55 miles southeast of Peoria. The facility is used to produce household

cookware and bakeware (e.g., pots, pans, bowls). The production process

involves cutting, shaping and coating raw stainless steel and aluminum

with copper or non-stick compounds, polishing, and handle attachment.

Material inputs purchased from abroad include stainless steel coils and

circles and aluminum coils (duty rate range: 3.0%--10.1%), which

represent some 25-50 percent of the finished products' material value.

Zone procedures would exempt Revere from Customs duty payments on

the foreign materials used in export production. On its domestic sales,

Revere would be able to choose the duty rates that apply to finished

cookware (3.4%) for the foreign materials noted above. The application

indicates that the savings from zone procedures would help the company

improve the international competitiveness of the Illinois plant.

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 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 May 9, 1994. Rebuttal comments in response

to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted

during the subsequent 15-day period (to May 23, 1994).

A copy of the application and the accompanying exhibits will be

available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Office of the Port Director, U.S. Customs Service, Greater Peoria

Airport, 1900 S. Maxwell Road, Peoria, IL 61607.

Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S.

Department of Commerce, room 3716, 14th Street & Constitution Avenue,

NW., Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: February 15, 1994.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 94-5185 Filed 3-7-94; 8:45 am]

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