[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 122 (Tuesday, June 25, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53045-53046]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13919]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Harvard 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, asamended 
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 (Insert date 20 days after 
publication in the Federal Register). Address written comments to 
Statutory Import Programs Staff, Room 41006, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. Please also email a copy of those 
comments to [email protected].
    Docket Number: 24-013. Applicant: Harvard University, 17 Oxford 
Street, Jefferson 158, Cambridge, MA 02138. Instrument: Narrow 
linewidth single frequency fiber laser. Manufacturer: Shanghai 
Precilaser Technology, Co., Ltd., China. Intended Use: The instrument 
is intended to be used for the high power (15 W), single frequency 
laser system at 828. 5 nm will be used in a quantum physics experiment 
at Harvard for optical tweezer trapping of rubidium-87 atoms. The 
available laser power will allow many more of these atoms (thousands) 
to be controlled than previously demonstrated (hundreds). This will 
allow the study of larger quantum systems with properties and 
fidelities far exceeding smaller systems. 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: May 8, 2024.
    Docket Number: 24-014. Applicant: Drexel University, Rm-MS 3701, 
Market Street, RM 470, Central Receiving, 34th & Ludlow Streets, 
Philadelphia, PA 19104.
    Instrument: Battery fabrication equipment. Manufacturer: Xiamen TOB 
New Energy. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to 
understand how battery electrodes are made, how to improve their 
processing, and how to make higher performance rechargeable batteries. 
The battery materials include oxides, and carbons and the phenomena is 
battery electrode microstructure and performance. 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: April 9, 2024.
    Docket Number: 24 -015. Applicant: Harvard University, 17 Oxford 
Street, Jefferson 158, Cambridge, MA 02138. Instrument: Narrow 
Linewidth Laser. Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilaser Technology, Co., 
Ltd., China. Intended Use: The high power (15 W), narrow-linewidth/
single frequency laser system at 852 nm will be used in a quantum 
physics experiment at Harvard for optical tweezer trapping of rubidium-
87 atoms. Narrow-linewidth operation of the laser is critical to the 
method of optical tweezer generation we use to trap atoms, and we need 
as much power as possible to perform experiments on the largest 
possible quantum systems. The wavelength of 852 nm is important because 
it is sufficiently far detuned from the atomic transition to provide 
long qubit coherence time. 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: April 29, 2024.
    Docket Number: 24-016. Applicant: Cornell University, 377 Pine Tree 
Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850.
    Instrument: Closed-cycle cryostat sample manipulator for ultra-low

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temperature angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy & electron energy 
loss spectroscopy. Manufacturer: Fermion Instrument, China. Intended 
Use: The instrument is intended to be used to conduct two different 
types of experiments: angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) 
and electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS). ARPES is a technique 
which allows us to measure directly the momentum-resolved single-
particle electronic structure of materials. EELS is a technique which 
allows us to measure the energy-resolved collective excitations in 
materials (such as lattice vibrations, plasmons, etc.). We currently 
have an electron detector that is, in principle, compatible with both 
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: April 2, 2024.

    Dated: June 20, 2024.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies and Economic Analysis, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2024-13919 Filed 6-24-24; 8:45 am]
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