Foreign-Trade Zone 68 -- El Paso, Texas, Request for Manufacturing Authority (Vacuum Cleaner Products), 66500-66501 [E6-19302]
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Temporary Site 2 (3 acres, 117,270 sq.
ft.)-warehouse facilities within the
Centro Mercantil Internacional (CMI)
complex, West Street, Guaynabo
(expires 1/31/07); Temporary Site 3 (14
acres)-warehouse facilities, located at
Highway 22 and J.F. Kennedy Avenue,
km. 3.9, San Juan (expires 11/1/08); and,
Temporary Site 4 (5 acres)-North
Distribution Center (Able Sales
warehouse), located at PR Highway 869,
km.1.1, Catano (expires 3/1/07).
The applicant is requesting authority
to expand Site 1 to include additional
acreage and to include 11 additional
sites in the San Juan area: Expand Site
1 to include an additional 184 acres in
Guaynabo–Parcel A (180 acres)International Trade Center Grounds,
Highway 165, km. 2.4 (which will
include the existing 60–acre site); Parcel
B (42 acres)-tract of undeveloped land,
intersection of State Road 22 and State
Road 28; Parcel C (12 acres)-tract of
developed land, at Highway 28 and
Cano Avenue; Parcel D (5acres)-Amelia
Distribution Center, intersection of
Highway 165 and Calle Amelia; Parcel
E (5 acres)-warehouse building, within
the Centro Mercantil Internacional
Complex, West Street, at the
International Trade Center Grounds
(which will include Temporary Site 2
on a permanent basis) (new total–244
acres); Proposed Site 2 (11 acres)-North
Distribution Center, located at km. 1.1
on Highway 869, Cata o (which will
include Temporary Site 4 on a
permanent basis); Proposed Site 3 (15
acres)-Cata o Equipment and Storage
Complex, intersection of Highway 165
and Las Palmas Avenue, Catano;
Proposed Site 4 (2 acres)-Bayamon
Logistics, Storage and Distribution
Center, intersection of Calle C and
Highway 28, Bayamon; Proposed Site 5
(3 acres)-Corujo Industrial Park, located
at Road 866, Km. 1.7, Hato Tejas;
Proposed Site 6 (4 acres)-warehouse
facilities located on the north side of
Highway 2, one mile east of Highway
165, Toa Baja; Proposed Site 7 (2 acres)Baldioroty de Castro Warehouse and
Distribution Center, located at
intersection of km 10.3, Marginal de la
Avenida de Baldioroty de Castro,
Carolina; Proposed Site 8 (5 acres)Manati chemical warehouse,
intersection of Highways 686 and 670,
Manati; Proposed Site 9 (7 acres)warehouse facilities located at km. 28.6
on Highway 1, Caguas; Proposed Site 10
(14 acres)-storage complex at J.F.
Kennedy Avenue and km 3.9, San Juan
(which will include Temporary Site 3
on a permanent basis); Proposed Site 11
(32 acres)-Mayaguez Regional
Distribution Center, located at 201
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Algarrobo Avenue, Mayaguez; and,
Proposed Site 12 (310 acres, 2 parcels)Yabucoa Industrial Park, at the
intersection of Highway 901 and
Highway 53, Yabucoa. No specific
manufacturing requests are being made
at this time. Such requests would be
made to the Board on a case–by-case
basis.
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 3 copies)
shall be addressed to the Board’s
Executive Secretary at the address
below. The closing period for their
receipt is January 16, 2007.
Rebuttal comments in response to
material submitted during the foregoing
period may be submitted during the
subsequent 15–day period (to January
29, 2007).
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, 420 Ponce de Leon Avenue,
Midtown Bldg., 10th Fl., San Juan,
Puerto Rico 00918; and, Office of the
Executive Secretary, Foreign–Trade
Zones Board, Room 1115, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20230.
Dated: November 3, 2006.
Pierre V. Duy,
Acting Executive Secretary.
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Billing Code: 3510–DS–S
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign–Trade Zones Board
(Docket 43–2006)
Foreign–Trade Zone 68 -- El Paso,
Texas, Request for Manufacturing
Authority (Vacuum Cleaner Products)
An application has been submitted to
the Foreign–Trade Zones Board (the
Board) by the City of El Paso, grantee of
Foreign–Trade Zone (FTZ) 68,
requesting authority on behalf of
Electrolux Home Care Products Ltd.
(Electrolux) for authority to manufacture
vacuum cleaners and vacuum cleaner
parts under FTZ procedures within FTZ
68 in El Paso, Texas. 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
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part 400). It was formally filed on
November 7, 2006.
Electrolux operates a manufacturing
and distribution facility (3 buildings,
300 employees) located at: 9600 Pan
American Way; 9500 Plaza Circle; and,
9660 Plaza Circle in El Paso, within FTZ
68. The facility is used to manufacture
and distribute vacuum cleaners and
related parts and accessories (up to
1,800,000 units annually). The dutiable
inputs used in the manufacturing
process include: lubricants; shampoo;
tape; foam filters; plastics; bags and bag
hardware; articles of conveyance; straps;
rubber belts; gaskets, washers and seals;
grommets; belts; filter packages; screws;
springs; micro–sprayers; insulated
electrical conductors; motor assemblies;
vacuums and vacuum components;
button assemblies; switches; motor
control centers; and, printed circuit
assemblies. Duty rates on the imported
components range from 2.0 percent to
8.5 percent. The finished products that
Electrolux would manufacture under
FTZ procedures include: foam filters;
bag hardware; rubber belts; cartons;
filters; micro–sprayers; insulated
electrical conductors; vacuum cleaners
and components; motor assemblies; and,
button assemblies. Duty rates on the
finished products range from duty free
to 4.2 percent.
This application requests authority for
Electrolux to conduct the activity under
FTZ procedures, which would exempt
Electrolux from Customs duty payments
on the foreign components used in
export production. Approximately 2.5
percent of production is exported. On
domestic sales, the company could
choose the lower duty rate that applies
to the finished products for the foreign
components noted above. Electrolux
also anticipates realizing additional
savings through duty deferral, the
elimination of duties on materials that
become scrap/waste during production,
inventory tax reduction and other
logistical benefits. The application
indicates that the FTZ–related savings
would improve the facility’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 is invited from
interested parties. Submissions (original
and copies) shall be addressed to the
Board’s Executive Secretary at the
address listed below. The closing period
for their receipt is January 16, 2007.
Rebuttal comments in response to
material submitted during the forgoing
period may be submitted during the
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subsequent 15–day period (to January
29, 2007.
A copy of the application and
accompanying exhibits will be available
for public inspection at each of the
following addresses: the City of El Paso,
501 George Perry Boulevard, Suite 1, El
Paso, Texas 79906; and, Office of the
Executive Secretary, Foreign–Trade
Zones Board, Room 1115, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington,
DC 20230.
Dated: November 7, 2006.
Pierre V. Duy,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6–19302 Filed 11–14–06; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
(A–580–812)
Dynamic Random Access Memory
Semiconductors of One Megabit or
Above From the Republic of Korea;
Notice of Amended Final Results
Pursuant to Court Decision
Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: On July 31, 2006, the United
States Court of International Trade (CIT)
sustained the final remand
redetermination made by the
Department of Commerce (the
Department) pursuant to the CIT’s third
remand of the final results of the May
1, 1999—December 31, 1999
administrative review of dynamic
random access memory semiconductors
of one megabit or above (DRAMs) from
the Republic of Korea (Korea). See
Hynix Semiconductor, Inc., Hynix
Semiconductor America, Inc. v. United
States and Micron Technology, Inc., 442
F. Supp. 2d 1359 (Ct. Int’l Trade 2006)
(Hynix IV). Because all litigation in this
matter has now concluded, the
Department is now issuing its amended
final results in accordance with the
CIT’s decision.
EFFECTIVE DATE: November 15, 2006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Maisha Cryor or Mark Manning, AD/
CVD Operations, Office 4, Import
Administration, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20230;
telephone: (202) 482–6320 or 482–3814,
respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Background
On October 12, 2001, the Department
published a notice of final results of the
antidumping duty administrative review
of DRAMs from Korea covering the
period May 1, 1999 through December
31, 1999. See Dynamic Random Access
Memory Semiconductors of One
Megabit or Above From the Republic of
Korea: Final Results of Antidumping
Duty Administrative Review, 66 FR
52097 (October 12, 2001) (Final
Results). Subsequently, Hynix
Semiconductor, Inc. (Hynix) filed suit at
the CIT contesting the Final Results.
In these Final Results, the Department
stated that: (1) ’’. . .as a result of the
continually changing methodology we
found that the reduced R&D costs
recognized by Hyundai and LG Semicon
Co. Ltd. (LG),1 through the amortization
and deferral of their R&D expenses, and
resulting allocation of R&D expenses to
merchandise, does not reasonably
reflect the cost of producing the subject
merchandise.’’ See Final Results and
accompanying Decision Memorandum
at Comment 2; (2) ’’. . .we have
continued to allocate all semiconductor
R&D expenses over the total
semiconductor cost of goods sold, a
methodology which does not overstate
costs, but which we believe reasonably
and accurately identifies the R&D
expenses attributable to subject
merchandise.’’ See Final Results and
accompanying Decision Memorandum
at Comment 3; and (3) ‘‘ {w} e also
based depreciation. . . on the pre–1998
useful lives employed by Hyundai
because. . .we believe that the useful
lives adopted in 1999, and the resulting
depreciation, are distortive.’’ See Final
Results and accompanying Decision
Memorandum at Comment 5.
In January 2003, the CIT remanded
the Department’s Final Results in Hynix
Semiconductor, Inc., Hynix
Semiconductor America., Inc. v. United
States and Micron Technology, Inc., No.
01–00988, Slip Op. 03–13 (Ct. Int’l
Trade 2003) (Hynix I). In Hynix I, the
CIT ordered the Department to: (1)
reconsider and further explain why the
use of Hynix’s amortized R&D costs
would not reasonably reflect Hynix’s
actual R&D expenses for this period of
review, and to identify what distortions,
if any, would arise in the cost of
production (COP) calculation if
amortized R&D costs were used; and to
reconsider and address Hynix’s
assertion that all 1996 R&D costs that
1 After the Fifth Administrative Review was
completed, respondent Hyundai acquired LG.
Subsequent to the acquisition, the name of the
combined company was changed to Hynix
Semiconductor, Inc.
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should have been carried forward into
this period of review, if amortized, were
fully taken into account prior to or
within the Fifth Administrative Review,
when the Department used expensed
R&D costs in the COP calculation; (2)
reconsider and further explain why
Hynix’s deferral of certain R&D costs
does not reasonably reflect the R&D
costs related to the subject merchandise;
(3) further explain whether the subject
merchandise has benefitted from R&D
activities for non–memory products and
identify substantial evidence in the
record to justify this conclusion; and (4)
explain how the revised average useful
lives (AULs) reported by Hynix are not
standard industry practice; how and
where in the record Hynix’s reported
AULs were overstated; and whether the
use of Hynix’s reported AULs would not
reasonably reflect depreciation in the
COP. See Hynix I at 2–3.
In the Department’s first
redetermination on remand, Final
Results of Redetermination Pursuant to
Court Remand; Hynix Semiconductor,
Inc., Hynix Semiconductor America.,
Inc. v. United States and Micron
Technology, Inc. (June 6, 2003) (Remand
Results), the Department, as ordered by
the CIT, fully explained, and supported
with substantial evidence, its positions
regarding Hynix’s R&D costs and AULs.
As a result, the Department reached the
same conclusions it reached in the Final
Results, namely that: (1) Hynix’s
amortization of its R&D costs does not
reasonably reflect Hynix’s actual R&D
expenses for this period of review; (2)
Hynix’s deferral of certain R&D costs
does not reasonably reflect the R&D
costs related to the subject merchandise;
(3) Hynix’s production of subject
merchandise has benefitted from R&D
activities for non–memory products;
and (4) the use of Hynix’s reported
AULs does not reasonably reflect the
cost of production.
On November 23, 2003, the CIT
remanded the Department’s Remand
Results. See Hynix Semiconductor, Inc.,
Hynix Semiconductor America., Inc. v.
United States and Micron Technology,
Inc., No. 01–00988, Slip Op. 03–152 (Ct.
Int’l Trade 2003) (Hynix II). Specifically,
the CIT sustained the Department’s
findings that Hynix’s indefinite deferral
of certain R&D expenses does not
accurately reflect Hynix’s cost of
producing the subject merchandise for
this period of review. See Hynix II at 9.
In Hynix II, however, the CIT again
remanded the Department’s findings
regarding Hynix’s amortization of R&D
costs, cross–fertilization and AULs.
On December 12, 2003, the petitioner
submitted comments on the CIT’s
findings in Hynix II. Specifically, the
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(Docket 43-2006)
Foreign-Trade Zone 68 -- El Paso, Texas, Request for
Manufacturing Authority (Vacuum Cleaner Products)
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the City of El Paso, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ)
68, requesting authority on behalf of Electrolux Home Care Products
Ltd. (Electrolux) for authority to manufacture vacuum cleaners and
vacuum cleaner parts under FTZ procedures within FTZ 68 in El Paso,
Texas. 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
November 7, 2006.
Electrolux operates a manufacturing and distribution facility (3
buildings, 300 employees) located at: 9600 Pan American Way; 9500 Plaza
Circle; and, 9660 Plaza Circle in El Paso, within FTZ 68. The facility
is used to manufacture and distribute vacuum cleaners and related parts
and accessories (up to 1,800,000 units annually). The dutiable inputs
used in the manufacturing process include: lubricants; shampoo; tape;
foam filters; plastics; bags and bag hardware; articles of conveyance;
straps; rubber belts; gaskets, washers and seals; grommets; belts;
filter packages; screws; springs; micro-sprayers; insulated electrical
conductors; motor assemblies; vacuums and vacuum components; button
assemblies; switches; motor control centers; and, printed circuit
assemblies. Duty rates on the imported components range from 2.0
percent to 8.5 percent. The finished products that Electrolux would
manufacture under FTZ procedures include: foam filters; bag hardware;
rubber belts; cartons; filters; micro-sprayers; insulated electrical
conductors; vacuum cleaners and components; motor assemblies; and,
button assemblies. Duty rates on the finished products range from duty
free to 4.2 percent.
This application requests authority for Electrolux to conduct the
activity under FTZ procedures, which would exempt Electrolux from
Customs duty payments on the foreign components used in export
production. Approximately 2.5 percent of production is exported. On
domestic sales, the company could choose the lower duty rate that
applies to the finished products for the foreign components noted
above. Electrolux also anticipates realizing additional savings through
duty deferral, the elimination of duties on materials that become
scrap/waste during production, inventory tax reduction and other
logistical benefits. The application indicates that the FTZ-related
savings would improve the facility'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 is invited from interested parties. Submissions
(original and copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive
Secretary at the address listed below. The closing period for their
receipt is January 16, 2007. Rebuttal comments in response to material
submitted during the forgoing period may be submitted during the
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subsequent 15-day period (to January 29, 2007.
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at each of the following addresses: the
City of El Paso, 501 George Perry Boulevard, Suite 1, El Paso, Texas
79906; and, Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones
Board, Room 1115, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: November 7, 2006.
Pierre V. Duy,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-19302 Filed 11-14-06; 8:45 am]
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