Foreign-Trade Zone 39 - Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, Application for Subzone, Dal-Tile Corporation, (Flooring and Home Furnishing Products Distribution), Sunnyvale and Mesquite, Texas, 14432-14433 [E8-5459]

Download as PDF 14432 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 53 / Tuesday, March 18, 2008 / Notices Dated: March 12, 2008. Gwellnar Banks, Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer. [FR Doc. E8–5324 Filed 3–17–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–07–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Census Bureau Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Annual Wholesale Trade Survey U.S. Census Bureau. Notice. AGENCY: ACTION: SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). To ensure consideration, written comments must be submitted on or before May 19, 2008. ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer, Department of Commerce, Room 6625, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at dHynek@doc.gov). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or copies of the information collection instrument(s) and instructions should be directed to John Miller, U.S. Census Bureau, Room 8K081, Washington, DC 20233–6500, (301) 763–2758. DATES: SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with NOTICES I. Abstract The Annual Wholesale Trade Survey (AWTS) covers companies with employment that are primarily engaged in merchant wholesale trade in the United States, including wholesalers that take title of the goods they sell such as jobbers, industrial distributors, exporters, importers, and manufacturers’ sales branches and offices. Additionally, the AWTS includes companies that do not take title of the goods they sell such as agents, merchandise or commodity brokers, commission merchants, and electronic business-to-business markets. The Bureau of Economic Analysis uses this information to improve the inventory valuation adjustments applied VerDate Aug<31>2005 17:39 Mar 17, 2008 Jkt 214001 to estimates of the Gross Domestic Product, and considers these data vital inputs to the National Income and Product accounts and annual inputoutput tables. The estimates produced from the AWTS are based on a probability sample and are published on the North American Industry Classification System basis. The sample design consists of small, medium, and large businesses requested to report sales on one of six questionnaires (the three classifications that follow are broken into separate questionnaires for company or single establishment reporters). Merchant wholesale establishments, excluding manufacturers’ sales branches and offices, are requested to provide sales, ecommerce, inventories, method of inventory valuation, inventories held outside the United States, purchases, and operating expenses. Manufacturers’ sales branches and offices are requested to provide sales, e-commerce, inventories, method of inventory valuation, inventories held outside the United States, and operating expenses. The agents, merchandise or commodity brokers, commission merchants, and electronic business-to-business markets are requested to provide commissions, sales on their own account, e-commerce, and operating expenses. The sample, consisting of approximately 8,900 businesses, is drawn from the Business Register, which contains all Employer Identification Numbers (EINs) and listed establishment locations. The sample is updated quarterly to reflect employer ‘‘births’’ and ‘‘deaths’’; adding new employer businesses identified in the Business and Professional Classification Survey and deleting firms and EINs when it is determined they are no longer active. Data from the AWTS are published at the United States summary level for selected wholesale industries approximately fourteen months after the end of the collection year. II. Method of Collection The information will be collected by mail, Internet, fax, and telephone. III. Data OMB Control Number: 0607–0195. Form Number: SA–42, SA–42A, SA– 42(MSBO), SA–42A(MSBO), SA– 42(AGBR), SA–42A(AGBR). Type of Review: Regular submission. Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. Estimated Number of Respondents: 8,887. Estimated Time per Response: 31 minutes. PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 4,592. Estimated Total Annual Cost: $0. Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, sections 182, 224, and 225. IV. Request for Comments Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the burden (including hours and cost) of the proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized and/or included in the request for OMB approval of this information collection; they also will become a matter of public record. Dated: March 12, 2008. Gwellnar Banks, Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer. [FR Doc. E8–5325 Filed 3–17–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–07–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Foreign–Trade Zones Board [Docket 16–2008] Foreign–Trade Zone 39 – Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, Application for Subzone, Dal–Tile Corporation, (Flooring and Home Furnishing Products Distribution), Sunnyvale and Mesquite, Texas An application has been submitted to the Foreign–Trade Zones (FTZ) Board (the Board) by the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board, grantee of FTZ 39, requesting special–purpose subzone status for the flooring and home furnishing products warehouse/ distribution facilities of Dal–Tile Corporation (Dal–Tile), at sites in Sunnyvale and Mesquite, Texas. 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 filed on March 7, 2008. The proposed subzone is located at two sites in Dallas County, Texas: Site E:\FR\FM\18MRN1.SGM 18MRN1 mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 53 / Tuesday, March 18, 2008 / Notices 1 (623,000 sq. ft. on 35 acres) – located at 199 Planters Road, Sunnyvale; and, Site 2 (396,750 sq. ft. on 24 acres) -located at 510 N. Peachtree, Suite 200, Mesquite. The facilities will be used for quality control, shading, cleaning, repackaging, marking, warehousing and distribution of domestic and foreign– origin flooring and home furnishing products for both the U.S. market and for re–export. None of the activities which Dal–Tile is proposing to perform under zone procedures would constitute manufacturing or processing under the FTZ Board’s regulations. The application indicates that FTZ procedures would be used to support Dal–Tile’s Texas–based distribution activity in competition with facilities abroad. FTZ procedures would exempt Dal– Tile from customs duty payments on foreign products that are re–exported (less than 5 percent of the facilities’ shipments). On its domestic shipments, duty payments would be deferred until the products are entered for consumption. The company may also realize certain logistical benefits related to the use of direct delivery and weekly customs entry procedures. The application indicates that the savings from FTZ procedures would help improve the facilities’ 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 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board’s Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is May 19, 2008;. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15–day period (to June 2, 2008). A copy of the application will be available for public inspection at each of the following locations: U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, 808 Throckmorton St., Fort Worth, TX 76102–6315; and, Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign–Trade Zones Board, Room 2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20230–0002. For further information, contact Diane Finver at DianelFinver@ita.doc.gov or (202) 482–1367. VerDate Aug<31>2005 19:03 Mar 17, 2008 Jkt 214001 Dated: March 7, 2008. Andrew McGilvray, Executive Secretary. [FR Doc. E8–5459 Filed 3–17–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Foreign–Trade Zones Board Order No. 1548 Approval for Expansion of Authority for Subzone 103A, Imation Enterprise Corp. (Data Storage Products), Wahpeton, North Dakota Area Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign–Trade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), the Foreign– Trade Zones Board (the Board) adopts the following Order: Whereas, Imation Enterprise Corp. (Imation), operator of Subzone 103A, has requested authority to expand the scope of manufacturing activity conducted under zone procedures within Subzone 103A at the Imation facilities in the Wahpeton, North Dakota area (FTZ Docket 27–2007, filed 7/23/ 2007); Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the Federal Register (72 FR 41705, 7/31/2007); Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the examiner’s report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and Board’s regulations are satisfied, and that approval of the application is in the public interest; Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders: The application to expand the scope of manufacturing authority under zone procedures within Subzone 103A, is approved, subject to the FTZ Act and the Board’s regulations, including § 400.28. Signed at Washington, DC, this 7th day of March 2008. David M. Spooner, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate Chairman, Foreign–Trade Zones Board. Attest: Andrew McGilvray, Executive Secretary. [FR Doc. E8–5432 Filed 3–17–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 14433 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Foreign-Trade Zones Board [Order No. 1549] Approval for Expansion of Manufacturing Authority for Subzone 86D; Tesoro Refining and Marketing Company; (Oil Refinery) Anacortes, WA Pursuant to its authority under the ForeignTrade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), the ForeignTrade Zones Board (the Board) adopts the following Order: Whereas, the Port of Tacoma, grantee of FTZ 86, has requested authority on behalf of Tesoro Refining and Marketing Company, to expand the scope of manufacturing activity conducted under zone procedures within Subzone 86D at the Tesoro Refining and Marketing Company oil refinery complex in Anacortes, Washington (FTZ Docket 22– 2007, filed 07–10–2007); Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the Federal Register(72 FR 39051, 7/17/07); and, Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the examiner’s report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and the Board’s regulations would be satisfied, and that approval of the application would be in the public interest if approval is subject to the conditions listed below; Now, therefore, the Board hereby approves the expansion of the scope of activity at Subzone 86D for the manufacture of petroleum products at the Tesoro Refining and Marketing Company oil refinery complex located in Anacortes, Washington, as described in the application and the Federal Register notice, subject to the FTZ Act and the Board’s regulations, including § 400.28, and further subject to the following conditions: 1. Foreign status (19 CFR 146.41, 146.42) products consumed as fuel for the refinery shall be subject to the applicable duty rate. 2. Privileged foreign status (19 CFR 146.41) shall be elected on all foreign merchandise admitted to the subzone, except that nonprivileged foreign (NPF) status (19 CFR 146.42) may be elected on refinery inputs covered under HTSUS Subheadings #2709.00.10, #2709.00.20, #2710.11.25, #2710.11.45, #2710.19.05, #2710.19.10, #2710.19.45, #2710.91.00, #2710.99.05, #2710.99.10, #2710.99.16, #2710.99.21 and #2710.99.45 which are used in the production of: —petrochemical feedstocks and refinery byproducts (examiners report, Appendix ‘‘C’’); —products for export; E:\FR\FM\18MRN1.SGM 18MRN1

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[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 53 (Tuesday, March 18, 2008)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[lsqb]Docket 16-2008[rsqb]


Foreign-Trade Zone 39 - Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, Application for 
Subzone, Dal-Tile Corporation, (Flooring and Home Furnishing Products 
Distribution), Sunnyvale and Mesquite, Texas

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board, 
grantee of FTZ 39, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the 
flooring and home furnishing products warehouse/distribution facilities 
of Dal-Tile Corporation (Dal-Tile), at sites in Sunnyvale and Mesquite, 
Texas. 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 filed on March 7, 2008.
    The proposed subzone is located at two sites in Dallas County, 
Texas: Site

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1 (623,000 sq. ft. on 35 acres) - located at 199 Planters Road, 
Sunnyvale; and, Site 2 (396,750 sq. ft. on 24 acres) -- located at 510 
N. Peachtree, Suite 200, Mesquite. The facilities will be used for 
quality control, shading, cleaning, repackaging, marking, warehousing 
and distribution of domestic and foreign-origin flooring and home 
furnishing products for both the U.S. market and for re-export. None of 
the activities which Dal-Tile is proposing to perform under zone 
procedures would constitute manufacturing or processing under the FTZ 
Board's regulations. The application indicates that FTZ procedures 
would be used to support Dal-Tile's Texas-based distribution activity 
in competition with facilities abroad.
    FTZ procedures would exempt Dal-Tile from customs duty payments on 
foreign products that are re-exported (less than 5 percent of the 
facilities' shipments). On its domestic shipments, duty payments would 
be deferred until the products are entered for consumption. The company 
may also realize certain logistical benefits related to the use of 
direct delivery and weekly customs entry procedures. The application 
indicates that the savings from FTZ procedures would help improve the 
facilities' 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 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive 
Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is 
May 19, 2008;. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to June 2, 2008).
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at each of the following locations: U.S. Department of Commerce, Export 
Assistance Center, 808 Throckmorton St., Fort Worth, TX 76102-6315; 
and, Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, D.C. 20230-0002. For further information, contact Diane 
Finver at Diane_Finver@ita.doc.gov or (202) 482-1367.

    Dated: March 7, 2008.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-5459 Filed 3-17-08; 8:45 am]
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