Foreign-Trade Zone 9Honolulu, HI; Request for Manufacturing Authority, Pacific Allied Products (Plastic Containers)

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 13-94]

Foreign-Trade Zone 9--Honolulu, HI; Request for Manufacturing

Authority, Pacific Allied Products (Plastic Containers)

An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)

Board (the Board) by the Department of Business, Economic Development &

Tourism of the State of Hawaii, grantee of FTZ 9, requesting authority

on behalf of Pacific Allied Products, Ltd., to manufacture plastic

food/beverage containers under zone procedures within FTZ 9, which

includes a general-purpose site at the Campbell Industrial Park. 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 March 25, 1994.

Pacific Allied operates a manufacturing facility at the Campbell

Industrial Park site. The facility (10 employees) is used to produce

recyclable plastic containers for food and beverage products. The

primary inputs are generally sourced abroad, including polyethylene

terythalate (HTS 3907.60.0010, duty rate 9%+3.1/kilo) and high density

polyethylene (HTS 3901.20.0000, duty rate 12.5%). The finished

containers produced under zone procedures would be sold to Hawaiian

food and beverage processors, whose products are targeted for Hawaiian

and foreign markets.

The application requests authority to allow Pacific Allied to

conduct certain manufacturing under zone procedures. This would allow

Pacific Allied to choose the duty rate that applies to the plastic

containers (3%) for the foreign components noted above (duty rates 9.0-

12.5%). The application indicates that the savings from zone procedures

would help improve the international competitiveness of the Pacific

Allied facility, and because this would reduce costs for food

processors located in Hawaii it would also help them compete with

foreign producers.

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 June 7, 1994. Rebuttal comments in response

to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted

during the subsequent 15-day period (to June 22, 1994).

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, 4106 Federal Building, 300

Ala Moana Blvd., Honolulu, Hawaii 96813

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: April 1, 1994.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 94-8490 Filed 4-7-94; 8:45 am]

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