Consolidated Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Electron Microscopes: University of Texas at Austin, et al.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

University of Texas at Austin, et al.; Notice of Consolidated

Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Electron Microscopes

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 p.m. in Room 3705, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC.

Docket Number: 09-038. Applicant: University of Texas at Austin,

Austin, TX 78758. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI

Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 74 FR 32890, July 9, 2009.

Docket Number: 09-039. Applicant: National Institutes of Health,

Hamilton, MT 59840. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI

Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 74 FR 32890, July 9, 2009.

Docket Number: 09-040. Applicant: Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, the

Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 74 FR 32890, July 9, 2009.

Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument, for such purposes as these instruments are intended to be used, was being manufactured in the United States at the time the instruments were 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: August 4, 2009.

Gregory Campbell,

Acting Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Import Administration.

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