[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 250 (Thursday, December 30, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 82372-82373]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-32936]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Vanderbilt 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 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 3720, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC.

    Docket Number: 10-065. Applicant: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 
TN 37235. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, 
Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 75 FR 73034, November 29, 
2010.

    Docket Number: 10-066. Applicant: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 
TN 37235. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: JEOL Limited, 
Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 75 FR 73034, November 29, 2010.

    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.


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    Dated: December 22, 2010.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 2010-32936 Filed 12-29-10; 8:45 am]
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