[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 195 (Tuesday, October 7, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 58539]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-23581]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Harvard University, et al.; Notice of Consolidated Decision on 
Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Electron Microscopes

    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, as amended by Public Law 106-36; 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR 
part 301). Related records can be viewed between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. 
in Room 2104, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 08-043. Applicant: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 
02138. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Tecnai G2 F20 TWIN. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 
73 FR 52297, September 9, 2008.
    Docket Number: 08-044. Applicant: Pennsylvania University, Hershey, 
PA 17033. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM 1400. 
Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 73 FR 
52297, September 9, 2008.
    Docket Number: 08-045. Applicant: University of Texas at Austin, 
Austin, TX 78712. Tecnai G2 Spirit Bi0TWIN Republic. Intended Use: 
2008. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech 
See notice at 73 FR 52297, September 9, 2008.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument, for such 
purposes as these instruments are intended to be used, was being 
manufactured in the United States at the time the instruments were 
ordered. Reasons: Each foreign instrument is an electron microscope and 
is intended for research or scientific educational uses requiring an 
electron microscope. We know of no electron microscope, or any other 
instrument suited to these purposes, which was being manufactured in 
the United States at the time of order of each instrument.

Dated: September 30, 2008.
Faye Robinson,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff Import Administration.
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