[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 46 (Friday, March 7, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12375-12376]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 08-984]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Application for Duty-Free Entry of a Scientific Instrument

    Pursuant to section 6(c) of the Educational, Scientific and 
Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub.

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L. 89-651; as amended by Pub. L. 106-36; 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 
301), we invite comments on the question of whether an instrument of 
equivalent scientific value, for the purposes for which the instrument 
shown below is intended to be used, is being manufactured in the United 
States.
    Comments must comply with 15 CFR 301.5(a)(3) and (4) of the 
regulations and be filed within 20 days with the Statutory Import 
Programs Staff, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution 
Ave., NW., Room 2104, Washington, DC 20230. Applications may be 
examined between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. in Room 2104, U.S. Department of 
Commerce.
    Docket Number: 08-003. Applicant: Rice University, 6100 Main 
Street, Houston, TX 77005. Instrument: Variable Temperature High 
Magnetic Field Nanometer-Precision Probe Station. Manufacturer: 
Attocube Systems AG, Germany.
    Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to allow 
multiterminal electronic measurement of novel materials, particularly 
those difficult to wire up in traditional geometries. This instrument 
will enable additional analytical physics and chemistry research 
involving nanomaterials. This instrument can supply a cryostate and 
magnet system with four independently nanopositionable probes. This 
variable temperature probe system is unique and is essential to enable 
a variety of physics and chemistry research efforts involving 
nanomaterials. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: January 
31, 2008.

    Dated: March 3, 2008.
Faye Robinson,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 08-984 Filed 3-6-08; 8:45 am]
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