[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 114 (Thursday, June 15, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 27468]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-12407]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Massachusetts Medical School, 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: 16-002. Applicant: University of Massachusetts 
Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655. Instrument: Electron Microscope. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, the Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 
81 FR 71702, October 18, 2016.
    Docket Number: 16-011. Applicant: Van Andel Research Institute, 
Grand Rapids, MI 49503. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: 
FEI Company, the Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 81 FR 71702-
03, October 18, 2016.
    Docket Number: 16-012. Applicant: Van Andel Research Institute, 
Grand Rapids, MI 49503. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: 
FEI Company, the Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 81 FR 71702-
03, October 18, 2016.
    Docket Number: 16-013. Applicant: Van Andel Research Institute, 
Grand Rapids, MI 49503. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: 
FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 81 FR 71702-
03, October 18, 2016.
    Docket Number: 16-015. Applicant: Yale University, New Haven, CT 
06520. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, the 
Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 81 FR 71702-03, October 18, 
2016.
    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: June 9, 2017.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2017-12407 Filed 6-14-17; 8:45 am]
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