[Image] Term [Image] (Cite as: 56 FR 26795) 1991 WL 300389 (F.R.) NOTICES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE [Image]Foreign[Image][Image]-Trade[Image] [Image]Zones[Image] Board [Docket No. 31-91] [Image]Foreign[Image][Image]-Trade[Image] [Image]Zone[Image] 151--Findlay, OH, Application for Subzone, W.C. Wood Company, Inc., Appliance Manufacturing Plant Ottawa, OH Tuesday, June 11, 1991 *26795 (Cite as: 56 FR 26795, *26795) An application has been submitted to the [Image]Foreign[Image][Image]-Trade [Image] [Image]Zones[Image] Board (the Board) by the Community Development Foundation, grantee of FTZ 151, Findlay, Ohio, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the freezer manufacturing plant of W.C. Wood, Inc. (Wood) (subsidiary of W.C. Wood Company Limited, Canada), located in Ottawa, Putnam County, Ohio. The application was submitted pursuant to the provisions of the [Image]Foreign[Image][Image]-Trade[Image] [Image]Zones [Image] 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 28, 1991. The Wood plant (80 acres, 100 employees) is located at 9444 Wood Drive in Ottawa, Ohio, 60 miles south of Toledo. The facility is used to produce private label, brand-name upright freezers for the domestic market and *26796 (Cite as: 56 FR 26795, *26796) export, replacing freezers formerly produced by affiliated plants in Canada. The only foreign-sourced components used in the manufacturing operation are compressors, which account for 12 percent of the finished freezers' value. The facility also serves as the firm's North American distribution center for other kitchen and home appliances, such as refrigerators and rangehoods, produced by the parent firm in Canada. Zone procedures would exempt Wood from Customs duty payments on the foreign compressors and finished products that are re-exported. On its domestic sales, the company would be able to choose the duty rate that applies to finished upright freezers (2.9%). The rate on compressors is 3.4 percent. It would defer duty payments on finished appliances sourced abroad. The applicant indicates that zone savings will improve the plant's international competitiveness. In accordance with the Board's regulations, an examiners committee has been appointed to investigate the application and report to the Board. The committee consists of: Dennis Puccinelli (Chairman), [Image]Foreign[Image] [Image]-Trade[Image] [Image]Zones[Image] Staff, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230; John F. Nelson, District Director, U.S. Customs Service, North Central Region, 55 Erieview Plaza, Cleveland, Ohio 44114; and, Major David P. Plank, District Engineer, U.S. Army Engineer District Buffalo, 1776 Niagara Street, Buffalo, New York 14207. Comments concerning the proposed foreign-trade subzone are invited from interested parties. They should be addressed to the Board's Executive Secretary at the address below and postmarked on or before July 26, 1991. A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be available for public inspection at each of the following locations: Port Director's Office, U.S. Customs Service, 136 N. Summit Street, Toledo, OH 43604 Office of the Executive Secretary, [Image]Foreign[Image][Image]-Trade [Image] [Image]Zones[Image] Boad, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. 20230 Dated: June 4, 1991. John J. Da Ponte, Jr., Executive Secretary. [FR Doc. 91-13836 Filed 6-10-91; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-DS-M 56 FR 26795-04, 1991 WL 300389 (F.R.) END OF DOCUMENT Copr. (C) West 1998 No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works [Image] Term [Image]