[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 227 (Monday, November 24, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 70961]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-27887]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Puerto Rico, 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 Pub. L. 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: 08-048. Applicant: University of Puerto Rico, San 
Juan, PR 00931-3334. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM 2100-F. 
Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 73 FR 
63434, October 24, 2008.
    Docket Number: 08-049. Applicant: University of Puerto Rico, San 
Juan, PR 00931-3334. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM 2200-
FS. Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 73 FR 
63434, October 24, 2008.
    Docket Number: 08-053. Applicant: Purdue University, West 
Lafayette, IN 47907. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Tecnai G2 
F20 TEM. Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: See 
notice at 73 FR 63434, October 24, 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: November 18, 2008.
Christopher Cassel,
Acting Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Import Administration.
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