[Federal Register: June 14, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 113)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 28-99]

 
Foreign-Trade Zone 219--Yuma, AZ, Application for Subzone, Gowan 
Company, Yuma, AZ

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Yuma County Airport Authority, Inc., grantee of FTZ 
219, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the manufacturing 
and warehousing facilities of Gowan Company (Gowan), located in Yuma, 
Arizona. 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 
May 27, 1999.
    The Gowan Company has two sites with 450 employees in Yuma County, 
Arizona. The manufacturing facility (45.25 acres) is located at 12300 
E. County 8th Street in Yuma, Arizona. The warehouse facility (26.96 
acres) is located at 10760 South Avenue 7E in Yuma, Arizona. The Gowan 
plant is used for the manufacturing, processing and packaging of 
agrichemicals for crop protection in commercial agriculture, including 
insecticides, fungicides and insect growth regulators (primarily HTS 
3808, duty rate ranges from duty-free to 6.5%). Components and 
materials sourced from abroad (representing about 80% of all parts 
consumed in manufacturing) include: esters of inorganic acids and 
organo-sulfur compounds (HTS 2920, 2930, 2940, duty rate ranges from 
duty-free to 10.7%). Some 25 percent of the plant's shipments are 
exported. FTZ procedures would exempt Gowan from Customs duty payments 
on the foreign components used in export production. On its domestic 
sales, Gowan would be able to choose the duty rates during Customs 
entry procedures that apply to finished agrichemicals (duty free to 
6.5%) for the foreign inputs noted above. The request indicates that 
the savings from FTZ procedures would help improve the plant's 
international competitiveness.
    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 3 copies) shall be addressed to the 
Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing period 
for their

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receipt is August 13, 1999. Rebuttal comments in response to material 
submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the 
subsequent 15-day period (to August 30, 1999).
    A copy of the application and the accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

U.S. Customs Port of Entry--San Luis, Highway 95 and International 
Border, San Luis, Arizona 85364
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20230

    Dated: May 28, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary
[FR Doc. 99-15027 Filed 6-11-99; 8:45 am]
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