[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 111 (Wednesday, June 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31736-31737]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15347]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


National Institute of Standards and Technology, et al.; Notice of 
Consolidated Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific 
Instruments

    This is a decision consolidated pursuant to Section 6(c) of the 
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966 
(Pub. L. 89-651, 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301). Related records can be 
viewed between 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. in Room 4211, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instruments described below, 
for such purposes as each is intended to be used, is being manufactured 
in the United States.
    Docket Number: 98-009. Applicant: National Institute of Standards 
and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Instrument: Neutron Velocity 
Selector. Manufacturer: Mirrotron Ltd., Hungary. Intended Use: See 
notice at 63 FR 11870, March 11, 1998. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides a monochromatic low-energy neutron beam using a time-of-flight 
method (``chopper'') for study of the microstructure of materials. 
Advice received from: Argonne National Laboratory, May 6, 1998.
    Docket Number: 98-013. Applicant: North Carolina State University, 
Raleigh, NC 27695-7212. Instrument: Automatic Pure Bending Tester, 
Model NESFB2-A. Manufacturer: Kato Tech

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Co., Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 63 FR 12452, March 13, 
1998. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides simulation of fabric 
wear conditions using a cantilever method which calculates the bending 
movement over a variable arc of constant curvature. Advice received 
from: A domestic manufacturer of similar equipment and a university 
laboratory textile laboratory, May 8, 1998.
    Argonne National Laboratory, a domestic manufacturer of similar 
equipment and a university textile laboratory advise that (1) the 
capabilities of each of the foreign instruments described above are 
pertinent to each applicant's intended purpose and (2) they know of no 
domestic instrument or apparatus of equivalent scientific value for the 
intended use of each instrument.
    We know of no other instrument or apparatus being manufactured in 
the United States which is of equivalent scientific value to either of 
the foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 98-15347 Filed 6-9-98; 8:45 am]
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