[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 109 (Wednesday, June 6, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 33422]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-13577]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


The Regents of the University of California, et al.; Notice of 
Consolidated Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Electron 
Microscope

    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 5:00 
p.m. in Room 3720, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution 
Avenue NW., Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 12-013. Applicant: Washington University in St. 
Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63130. Instrument: Electron Microscope. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 
77 FR 26507, May 4, 2012.
    Docket Number: 12-018. Applicant: The Regents of the University of 
California, Berkeley, CA 94720. Instrument: Electron Microscope. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 
77 FR 26507, May 4, 2012.
    Docket Number: 12-019. Applicant: Schepens Eye Research Institute, 
Boston, MA 02114. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI 
Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 77 FR 26507, May 
4, 2012.
    Docket Number: 12-020. Applicant: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 
Chevy Chase, MD 20815. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: 
FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 77 FR 26507, 
May 4, 2012.
    Docket Number: 12-021. Applicant: Rice University, Houston, TX 
77005. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, 
Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 77 FR 26507, May 4, 2012.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument, for such 
purposes as this instrument is intended to be used, is being 
manufactured in the United States at the time the instrument was 
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: May 29, 2012.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 2012-13577 Filed 6-5-12; 8:45 am]
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