Interpretation ID: nht90-2.78

TYPE: Interpretation-NHTSA

DATE: June 11, 1990

FROM: Tony Llama -- President, Davenport Enterprises

TO: Steven P. Wood, NHTSA

TITLE: None

ATTACHMT: Attached to letter dated 8-2-90 to T. Llama from P. J. Rice; (A35; Part 591); and letter dated 6-12-90 to T. Llama from D. Sander

TEXT:

Our customer in Panama, Motores Internacionales, S.A., is the distributor for Latin America and the Caribbean of vehicles manufactured in the USSR, and we supply the air conditioners for the vehicles which they sell.

Recently they received a new vehicle, which is a van similar to the ones manufactured in Japan. This type of van can also be converted into an ambulance, and they have asked us to design and develop an a/c unit for this vehicle.

In order to do so, we must bring one into the U.S.A. for a period of at least 90 days. Once we have built and installed the a/c unit on this vehicle, it will be returned to Panama for evaluation and testing.

Since this is a non-compliant vehicle, we would like to request from you permission to enter it into the United States through the Port of Houston, Texas, where it will be transferred on a platform to our factory in Dallas, Texas, until we finish develop ing the air conditioning unit. Then it will be returned to Panama in the same manner.

Please let us know your requirements so that we may advise our customer and be able to proceed with this project.

P.S. Please address your response to our export office in Coral Gables, Florida.