[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 65 (Thursday, April 4, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 20296]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-07871]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Purdue University 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: 12-060. Applicant: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 
TN 37235. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, 
the Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 78 FR 2659, January 14, 
2013.
    Docket Number: 12-061. Applicant: Purdue University, West 
Lafayette, IN 47907-2024. Instrument: Electron Microscope. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, the Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 
78 FR 2659, January 14, 2013.
    Docket Number: 12-067. Applicant: University of Pennsylvania, 
Philadelphia, PA 19104. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: 
JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 78 FR 2659, January 14, 
2013.
    Docket Number: 12-068. Applicant: National Center for Toxicological 
Research, USFDA, Jefferson, AK 72079. Instrument: Electron Microscope. 
Manufacturer: Carl Zeiss, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 78 FR 
2659, January 14, 2013.
    Docket Number: 12-069. Applicant: Temple University, Philadelphia, 
PA 19122. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, 
Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 78 FR 2659, January 14, 
2013.
    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: March 28, 2013.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 2013-07871 Filed 4-3-13; 8:45 am]
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