[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 17 (Tuesday, January 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8261-8262]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01792]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Arizona State 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 18, 2025. 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: 24-028. Applicant: Arizona State University, 1711 S
Rural Road, Tempe, AZ 85281. Instrument: Ultra High Pressure Multi-
Anvil apparatus with DIA module. Manufacturer: Max Voggenreiter GmbH,
Germany. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to enable
materials to be processed under a much wider range of pressure and
temperature than currently available in the United States. Materials
subjected to extreme pressure (and temperature) undergo significant
changes in shape, bonding and atomic-scale structure. The goal of the
FORCE Mid-Scale Research Instrumentation Project is to establish a
Facility for High Pressure Research located at Arizona State University
(ASU), but accessible to researchers throughout the U.S., and the rest
of the World, through the acquisition and implementation of highly
specialized high-pressure instrumentation. 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 15, 2024.
Docket Number: 24-034. Applicant: University of Colorado JILA
Department, Campus Box 440, UCB, JILA Building, Room S/175, Boulder, CO
80309. Instrument: Thulium-doped fiber laser. Manufacturer: Shanghai
Precilasers Technology Co., Ltd., China. Intended Use: According to the
applicant, the instrument is intended to be used with the purchase of a
laser with a center wavelength of 502.88 nm and 1 watt of output power.
This laser will couple certain vibrational and electronic states of the
molecule YO, which is the system under study in our lab. Currently, we
use a 649 nm laser (also from Precilasers) to couple a different set of
levels. Integrating this laser into our experiment, we expect a
significant enhancement in the number of molecules we can trap enabling
new scientific goals. 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: October 8, 2024.
Docket Number: 24-035. Applicant: University of Colorado JILA
Department, Campus Box 440 UCB, JILA Building, Room S/175, Boulder, CO
80309. Instrument: Soft X-ray scientific CMOS camera. Manufacturer:
Fuzhou Tucsen Photonics, Ltd., China. Intended Use: According to the
applicant, the instrument is intended to be used as a low-dose soft X-
ray ptychographic imaging, for biological samples, which can benefit
from an imaging sensor with high frame rates, low read out noise and
high quantum efficiency. Our current generation tabletop soft X-ray
source is limited to low flux, further adding to the need for a high
sensitivity X-ray camera. Most of our current cameras utilize backside
illuminated CCD technology, which is somewhat limited in all of those
categories. 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: July 23, 2024.
Docket Number: 24-036. Applicant: Cornell University, Clark Hall,
142 Sciences Drive, Room 272, Ithaca, NY 14853-2501. Instrument: Narrow
Linewidth Fiber Laser. Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilasers Technology
Company, Ltd., China. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be
used for the trapping and controlling chains of singly ionized barium
atoms. The materials to be investigated are quantum information aspects
associated with the internal level structure of the atoms and their
quantum mechanical motion. Studying the efficiency of quantum
algorithms using trapped ion systems and utilizing trapped ion systems
as precision probes for search of new physics. Graduate students in the
Katz Lab will use the lasers to assemble the trapped ion setup, gaining
advanced knowledge in optics and quantum information processing.
Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the
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applicant, there are no instruments of the same general category
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: October 22, 2024.
Docket Number: 24-037. Applicant: Tulane University, 6823 St.
Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118. Instrument: Multi-collector high
resolution inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometer with collision
cell. Manufacturer: Nu Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The
instrument is intended to be used to enhance the research capabilities
of the Earth and Environmental Sciences department. Currently planned
experiments include using thallium isotopes and selenium isotopes to
study past ocean oxygen variations from rock samples, strontium and
calcium isotopes to investigate calcium carbonate saturation states,
and boron isotopes to reconstruct past ocean acidity from corals. These
analyses will provide important insights of past climate change and
geochemical cycles of various elements. This instrument maybe used for
demonstration purposes only for high level analytical chemistry and
geochemistry classes. The goal of this course is to introduce the use
of stable and radioactive isotopes as tools to trace the movement of
air, water, and sediments through the atmosphere, hydrosphere,
biosphere, and lithosphere. 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: October 22, 2024.
Docket Number: 24-038. Applicant: Harvard University, 17 Oxford
Street, Cambridge, MA 01238. Instrument: Narrow linewidth lasers with
accompanying accessories (2). Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilasers
Technology Co., Ltd., China. Intended Use: The instrument is intended
to be used for research focusing on using ultracold Strontium
monohydroxide (SrOH) molecules for precision measurements of physics
beyond the Standard Model, including the electron Electric Dipole
Moment (eEDM) and dark matter. To conduct these precision measurements,
the SrOH molecules must first be laser-slowed and laser-cooled to
extremely low temperatures and high densities. A high-power, single-
frequency 688 nm laser system from Shanghai Precilasers will be used to
cool the SrOH molecules inside a magneto-optical trap (MOT). This
process requires precise addressing of a transition with MHz precision
and a high photon scattering rate for eRective trapping. 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: November 13,
2024.
Docket Number: 24-039. Applicant: University of Chicago, High Bay
Research Building, 5602 S Maryland, Chicago, IL 60637. Instrument:
Telescope Mirror Test Stand. Manufacturer: Carpenteria Colombo
Ferruccio SRL, Italy. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be
used to study the thermal and gravitational deformation of a 5.5 meter
diameter, monolithic aluminum mirror which serves as the primary
reflecting mirror on a telescope designed to study primordial
gravitational waves. The objectives are to characterize the deformation
of the mirror under different thermal gradients and changing elevation
angles to allow development of algorithms to correct the optical
images. 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 27, 2024.
Docket Number: 24-040. Applicant: University of California, Santa
Barbara, 2509 Broida Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530. Instrument:
Low Noise Laser Amplifier. Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilaser Technology
Co., Ltd., China. Intended Use: The low noise laser amplifier at 1064
nm will be used in a cold atom experiment at University of California,
Santa Barbara, for opCcal trapping and manipulaCon of ultracold
potassium-39 atoms. It will be seeded by our own 500 mW 1064 laser and
will produce 100 W output power. Potassium-39 atoms at low temperature
will be loaded into the opCcal traps created by the laser amplifier.
Combining with acousto-opCcal modulators, we will be able to alter the
quantum state of the atoms in the opCcal potenCals, and perform
experiments about quantum interacCve dynamics and other quantum
simulaCons. 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: December 4, 2024.
Dated: January 22, 2025.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies and Economic Analysis, Enforcement and Compliance.
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