[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 149 (Wednesday, August 2, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 47405]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-19543]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Washington University; 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 AM and 5 PM in Room 4211, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
    Docket Numbers: 00-012 and 00-014. Applicant: Washington 
University, St, Louis, WA 63110. Instruments: XY Shifting Tables, Model 
240 with Accessories. Manufacturer: Luigs and Neuman, Germany. Intended 
Use: See notice at 65 FR 37117 and 37118, June 13, 2000. Advice 
received from: National Institutes of Health, July 3, 2000.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instruments, for the 
purposes for which the instruments are intended to be used, is being 
manufactured in the United States. Reasons: These are compatible 
accessories for instruments previously imported for the use of the 
applicant. The National Institutes of Health advises that the 
accessories are pertinent to the intended uses and that it knows of no 
comparable domestic accessories.
    We know of no domestic accessories which can be readily adapted to 
the previously imported instruments.

Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 00-19543 Filed 8-1-00; 8:45 am]
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