Foreign-Trade Zone 14-Little Rock, AR; Application for Subzone; Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Inc. (Wind Turbine Nacelles and Generating Sets); Fort Smith, AR, 53403-53404 [2011-21941]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 55–2011]
Foreign-Trade Zone 14—Little Rock,
AR; Application for Subzone;
Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas,
Inc. (Wind Turbine Nacelles and
Generating Sets); Fort Smith, AR
An application has been submitted to
the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the
Board) by the Arkansas Economic
Development Commission, grantee of
FTZ 14, requesting special-purpose
subzone status for the wind turbine
nacelle and generating set
manufacturing facility of Mitsubishi
Power Systems Americas, Inc. (MPSA)
located in Fort Smith, Arkansas. 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 August 19, 2011.
The MPSA facility (90 acres/
approximately 335 employees) is
located at 8201 Chad Colley Boulevard
in Fort Smith (Sebastian County),
Arkansas. The facility, currently under
construction, will be used to
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manufacture and distribute wind
turbine nacelles, generating sets and
related components (up to 250 nacelles,
250 generating sets, and 750 nacelle
components (front and rear modules,
rotor heads) annually) for the U.S.
market and export. Foreign components
and materials (representing up to 56%
of the finished products’ value) that
would be used in the manufacturing
activity would include: grease, oils,
epoxy/resins, paint, filler, sealants,
electrical tape, adhesives, plastic tubes/
pipes, self-adhesive plates/sheets/film
of plastics, gaskets/washers/seals of
plastics and rubber, articles of plastic
and rubber, wire and cable, fasteners (of
steel, copper, aluminum), tubes/pipes
and related fittings of steel and copper,
brackets, flanges, base metal mountings,
chain, guide bars, hinges, linear/rotary
action cylinders, electrical equipment,
connectors, panels, displays, motors,
generators, batteries, profile projectors
and parts, ducts, clamps, control valves,
gears, transmission shafts, flywheels,
clutches, couplings, pulleys, springs,
pumps, fans, compressors, air/water
coolers, evaporators, heat exchangers,
filters, balancing weights, plates,
controllers, hydraulic assemblies,
accumulators, valves, bearings,
housings, lighting equipment, windings,
electronic components, thermometers,
hydrometers, gauges, measuring
instruments, heaters, thermostats,
regulators, switches, lamps, clock
movements, and discharge brushes
(duty rate range: free—9.0%; 45¢
ea.+6.4%+25¢/jewel).
FTZ procedures could exempt MPSA
from customs duty payments on the
foreign components and materials used
in export production (as much as 25%
of annual shipments). On domestic
shipments, the company would be able
to elect the duty rate that applies to
finished wind turbine nacelles,
generating sets, and nacelle components
(duty rate range: free—3.0%) for the
foreign production inputs noted above.
MPSA would also be exempt from duty
payments on any foreign-origin inputs
that become scrap or waste during
manufacturing. Subzone status would
further allow MPSA to realize logistical
benefits through the use of weekly
customs entry procedures. The
application indicates that the savings
from FTZ procedures would help
improve the facility’s international
competitiveness.
In accordance with the Board’s
regulations, Pierre Duy of the FTZ Staff
is designated examiner to evaluate and
analyze the facts and information
presented in the application and case
record and to report findings and
recommendations to the Board.
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Public comment is invited from
interested parties. Submissions (original
and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the
Board’s Executive Secretary at the
following address: Office of the
Executive Secretary, Room 2111, U.S.
Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20230–0002. The closing period for
receipt of comments is October 25,
2011. Rebuttal comments in response to
material submitted during the foregoing
period may be submitted during the
subsequent 15-day period to November
9, 2011.
A copy of the application will be
available for public inspection at the
Office of the Foreign-Trade Zones
Board’s Executive Secretary at the
address listed above and in the
‘‘Reading Room’’ section of the Board’s
Web site, which is accessible via
https://www.trade.gov/ftz. For further
information, contact Pierre Duy at
Pierre.Duy@trade.gov or (202) 482–1378.
Dated: August 19, 2011.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Initiation of Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Administrative
Reviews and Requests for Revocation
in Part
Import Administration,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
AGENCY:
The Department of Commerce
(‘‘the Department’’) has received
requests to conduct administrative
reviews of various antidumping and
countervailing duty orders and findings
with July anniversary dates. In
accordance with the Department’s
regulations, we are initiating those
administrative reviews. The Department
also received requests to revoke two
antidumping duty orders in part.
Effective Date: August 26, 2011.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sheila E. Forbes, Office of AD/CVD
Operations, Customs Unit, Import
Administration, International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230,
telephone: (202) 482–4697.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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The Department has received timely
requests, in accordance with 19 CFR
351.213(b), for administrative reviews of
various antidumping and countervailing
duty orders and findings with July
anniversary dates. The Department also
received timely requests to revoke in
part the antidumping duty orders on
Certain Pasta from Italy for one exporter
and on Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip
in Coils from Taiwan for one exporter.
All deadlines for the submission of
various types of information,
certifications, or comments or actions by
the Department discussed below refer to
the number of calendar days from the
applicable starting time.
Notice of No Sales
If a producer or exporter named in
this notice of initiation had no exports,
sales, or entries during the period of
review (‘‘POR’’), it must notify the
Department within 60 days of
publication of this notice in the Federal
Register. All submissions must be filed
electronically at https://
iaaccess.trade.gov in accordance with
19 CFR 351.303. See Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Electronic Filing Procedures;
Administrative Protective Order
Procedures, 76 FR 39263 (July 6, 2011).
Such submissions are subject to
verification in accordance with section
782(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended (‘‘Act’’). Further, in
accordance with 19 CFR
351.303(f)(3)(ii), a copy of each request
must be served on the petitioner and
each exporter or producer specified in
the request.
Respondent Selection
SUMMARY:
DATES:
Background
In the event the Department limits the
number of respondents for individual
examination for administrative reviews,
the Department intends to select
respondents based on U.S. Customs and
Border Protection (‘‘CBP’’) data for U.S.
imports during the POR. We intend to
release the CBP data under
Administrative Protective Order
(‘‘APO’’) to all parties having an APO
within seven days of publication of this
initiation notice and to make our
decision regarding respondent selection
within 21 days of publication of this
Federal Register notice. The
Department invites comments regarding
the CBP data and respondent selection
within five days of placement of the
CBP data on the record of the applicable
review.
In the event the Department decides
it is necessary to limit individual
examination of respondents and
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conduct respondent selection under
section 777A(c)(2) of the Act:
In general, the Department has found
that determinations concerning whether
particular companies should be
‘‘collapsed’’ (i.e., treated as a single
entity for purposes of calculating
antidumping duty rates) require a
substantial amount of detailed
information and analysis, which often
require follow-up questions and
analysis. Accordingly, the Department
will not conduct collapsing analyses at
the respondent selection phase of this
review and will not collapse companies
at the respondent selection phase unless
there has been a determination to
collapse certain companies in a
previous segment of this antidumping
proceeding (i.e., investigation,
administrative review, new shipper
review or changed circumstances
review). For any company subject to this
review, if the Department determined,
or continued to treat, that company as
collapsed with others, the Department
will assume that such companies
continue to operate in the same manner
and will collapse them for respondent
selection purposes. Otherwise, the
Department will not-collapse companies
for purposes of respondent selection.
Parties are requested to (a) identify
which companies subject to review
previously were collapsed, and (b)
provide a citation to the proceeding in
which they were collapsed. Further, if
companies are requested to complete
the Quantity and Value Questionnaire
for purposes of respondent selection, in
general each company must report
volume and value data separately for
itself. Parties should not include data
for any other party, even if they believe
they should be treated as a single entity
with that other party. If a company was
collapsed with another company or
companies in the most recently
completed segment of this proceeding
where the Department considered
collapsing that entity, complete quantity
and value data for that collapsed entity
must be submitted.
Deadline for Withdrawal of Request for
Administrative Review
Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), a
party that has requested a review may
withdraw that request within 90 days of
the date of publication of the notice of
initiation of the requested review. The
regulation provides that the Department
may extend this time if it is reasonable
to do so. In order to provide parties
additional certainty with respect to
when the Department will exercise its
discretion to extend this 90-day
deadline, interested parties are advised
that, with regard to reviews requested
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 55-2011]
Foreign-Trade Zone 14--Little Rock, AR; Application for Subzone;
Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Inc. (Wind Turbine Nacelles and
Generating Sets); Fort Smith, AR
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, grantee of
FTZ 14, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the wind turbine
nacelle and generating set manufacturing facility of Mitsubishi Power
Systems Americas, Inc. (MPSA) located in Fort Smith, Arkansas. 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 August 19, 2011.
The MPSA facility (90 acres/approximately 335 employees) is located
at 8201 Chad Colley Boulevard in Fort Smith (Sebastian County),
Arkansas. The facility, currently under construction, will be used to
manufacture and distribute wind turbine nacelles, generating sets and
related components (up to 250 nacelles, 250 generating sets, and 750
nacelle components (front and rear modules, rotor heads) annually) for
the U.S. market and export. Foreign components and materials
(representing up to 56% of the finished products' value) that would be
used in the manufacturing activity would include: grease, oils, epoxy/
resins, paint, filler, sealants, electrical tape, adhesives, plastic
tubes/pipes, self-adhesive plates/sheets/film of plastics, gaskets/
washers/seals of plastics and rubber, articles of plastic and rubber,
wire and cable, fasteners (of steel, copper, aluminum), tubes/pipes and
related fittings of steel and copper, brackets, flanges, base metal
mountings, chain, guide bars, hinges, linear/rotary action cylinders,
electrical equipment, connectors, panels, displays, motors, generators,
batteries, profile projectors and parts, ducts, clamps, control valves,
gears, transmission shafts, flywheels, clutches, couplings, pulleys,
springs, pumps, fans, compressors, air/water coolers, evaporators, heat
exchangers, filters, balancing weights, plates, controllers, hydraulic
assemblies, accumulators, valves, bearings, housings, lighting
equipment, windings, electronic components, thermometers, hydrometers,
gauges, measuring instruments, heaters, thermostats, regulators,
switches, lamps, clock movements, and discharge brushes (duty rate
range: free--9.0%; 45[cent] ea.+6.4%+25[cent]/jewel).
FTZ procedures could exempt MPSA from customs duty payments on the
foreign components and materials used in export production (as much as
25% of annual shipments). On domestic shipments, the company would be
able to elect the duty rate that applies to finished wind turbine
nacelles, generating sets, and nacelle components (duty rate range:
free--3.0%) for the foreign production inputs noted above. MPSA would
also be exempt from duty payments on any foreign-origin inputs that
become scrap or waste during manufacturing. Subzone status would
further allow MPSA to realize logistical benefits through the use of
weekly customs entry procedures. The application indicates that the
savings from FTZ procedures would help improve the facility's
international competitiveness.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, Pierre Duy of the FTZ
Staff is designated examiner to evaluate and analyze the facts and
information presented in the application and case record and to report
findings and recommendations to the Board.
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Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions
(original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive
Secretary at the following address: Office of the Executive Secretary,
Room 2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230-0002. The closing period for receipt of comments
is October 25, 2011. Rebuttal comments in response to material
submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the
subsequent 15-day period to November 9, 2011.
A copy of the application will be available for public inspection
at the Office of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board's Executive Secretary at
the address listed above and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the
Board's Web site, which is accessible via https://www.trade.gov/ftz. For
further information, contact Pierre Duy at Pierre.Duy@trade.gov or
(202) 482-1378.
Dated: August 19, 2011.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-21941 Filed 8-25-11; 8:45 am]
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