[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 16 (Wednesday, January 27, 2021)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Cornell University, et al.; Application(s) for Duty-Free Entry of 
Scientific Instruments

    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), we invite comments 
on the question of whether instruments of equivalent scientific value, 
for the purposes for which the instruments shown below are intended to 
be used, are being manufactured in the United States.
    Comments must comply with 15 CFR 301.5(a)(3) and (4) of the 
regulations and be postmarked on or before February 16, 2021. Address 
written comments to Statutory Import Programs Staff, Room 3720, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. Please also email an 
identical copy of any written comments to [email protected]. 
Similarly, requests by the public to examine applications should be 
emailed to [email protected].
    Docket Number: 20-010. Applicant: Cornell University, Department of 
Materials Science and Engineering, Carpenter Hall, 313 Campus Road, 
Ithaca, NY 14853. Instrument: Six-axes sample manipulator for ample 
resolved photoemission. Manufacturer: Fermi Instruments, China. 
Intended Use: According to the applicant, the instrument will be used 
to fabricate on site new material and to study their electronic 
properties with several experimental techniques. Angle resolved 
photoemission (ARPES) will be the main one, as it conveys directly most 
information needed on the electronic structure of the material, e.g., 
whether it is conducting/insulating/superconducting anisotropic, close 
to an electronic instability, likely to undergo an electronic 
transition, etc. According to the applicant, this is of great 
importance for fundamental physics, but in a longer-term perspective, 
also in order to identify the potential of materials for applications, 
in particular in energy production, conversion and storage. The ARPES 
set up, as well as, the molecular beam epitaxy station for materials 
fabrication, will be used as a facility for internal and external 
users, which will have to submit proposals and apply for time to 
perform their experiments. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According 
to the applicant, there are no instruments of the same general category 
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner 
of Customs: August 6, 2020.
    Docket Number: 12-011. Applicant: Cornell University, Department of 
Materials Science and Engineering, Carpenter Hall, 313 Campus Road, 
Ithaca, NY 14853. Instrument: Multi-gas lamp for angle-resolved 
photoemission. Manufacturer: Fermi, China. Intended Use: According to 
the applicant, the instrument will be used to fabricate on site new 
material and to study their electronic properties with several 
experimental techniques. Angle resolved photoemission (ARPES) will be 
the main one, as it conveys directly most information needed on the 
electronic structure of the material, e.g., whether it is conducting/
insulating/superconducting anisotropic, close to an electronic 
instability, likely to undergo an electronic transition, etc. According 
to the applicant, this is of great importance for fundamental physics, 
but in a longer-term perspective, also in order to identify the 
potential of materials for applications, in particular, in energy 
production, conversion and storage. The excitation source is a key 
element of any photoemission setup. It provides a beam of light which 
is directed to the sample and causes the emission of the electrons, 
object of the measurement. For angle-resolved photoemission, the 
standard excitation source is a helium (He) gas discharge lamp, which 
excites He atoms and emits light caused by the de-excitation process. 
It is widely used in many laboratories and sold by a few companies in 
the world. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the 
applicant, there are no instruments of the same general category 
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner 
of Customs: August 10, 2020.
    Docket Number: 20-012. Applicant: University of Minnesota, 
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, 421 
Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Instrument: Spark Plasma 
Sintering Systems. Manufacturer: SUGA Co., Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: 
According to the applicant, the instrument will be used to study a 
variety of structural ceramic and metal materials including refractory 
alloys (e.g., containing combinations of Nb, Ta, W, Mo, Zr, Hf, etc.,), 
oxide ceramics such as Gd2Zr2O7), 
(Y5Al3O12), and 
Y2Si2O7, and non-oxide ceramics such 
as SiC and Si3N4. The instrument will also be 
used to study the sintering or consolidation behavior of these 
materials and will be used to prepare dense specimens to be analyzed 
using other instruments. The research focuses on the development or 
materials with improved performance in extreme environments. The 
instrument will be used to generate dense specimens of the materials 
described above, which will subsequently be tested using other methods 
to determine their performance in oxidizing or corrosive environments. 
A key aspect of the investigations involved rapid consolidation in 
order to achieve high density while limiting grain growth associated 
with longer exposures to high temperature used in other sintering 
techniques. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the 
applicant, there are no instruments of the same general category 
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner 
of Customs: August 11, 2020.

    Dated: January 21, 2021.
Richard Herring,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement, Enforcement and Compliance.
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