Consolidated Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Electron Microscopes: Hunter College/CUNY et al.

Federal Register: December 3, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 231)

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

Hunter College/CUNY 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: 09-055. Applicant: Hunter College/CUNY, New York, NY 10065. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan.

Intended Use: See notice at 74 FR 54959, October 26, 2009.

Docket Number: 09-056. Applicant: University of California at

Davis, Davis, CA 95616. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer:

FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 74 FR 54959,

October 26, 2009.

Docket Number: 09-057. Applicant: Northwestern University,

Evanston, IL 60208. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: JEOL

Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 74 FR 54959, October 26, 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: November 25, 2009.

Christopher Cassel,

Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Import Administration.

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