# Economic Impact Policy
This notice is to inform the public that the Export-Import Bank of the United States has received an application to finance the export of approximately $480 million in U.S. equipment and services to a petrochemicals facility in Saudi Arabia. The U.S. exports will enable the petrochemicals facility to produce approximately 1.1 million metric tons of high-density polyethylene, 400 thousand metric tons of polypropylene, 200 thousand metric tons of polystyrene and 100 thousand metric tons of hexene-1. Initial production at this facility is expected to commence in 2011.
Available information indicates the following: The high-density polyethylene will be consumed in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East; the polypropylene will be consumed in Asia, Western Europe and the Middle East; the polystyrene will be consumed in China, Africa, Europe and the Middle East; and the hexene-1 will be consumed in Saudi Arabia. Interested parties may submit comments on this transaction by e-mail to *[email protected]* or by mail to 811 Vermont Avenue, NW., Room 1238, Washington, DC 20571, within 14 days of the date this notice appears in the *Federal Register* .
Helene S. Walsh,
Director, Policy Oversight and Review.