[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 139 (Wednesday, July 20, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43263-43264]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-18298]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


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 August 9, 2011. Address 
written comments to Statutory Import Programs Staff, Room 3720, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. Applications may be 
examined between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the U.S. Department of 
Commerce in Room 3720.
    Docket Number: 11-039. Applicant: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 
Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, 225 Norris Hall MC 
0219, Blacksburg, VA 24061. Instrument: Nano test platform. 
Manufacturer: Micro Materials Ltd., UK. Intended Use: The instrument 
will be used to study the mechanical behavior of metals (steel, 
aluminum, brass copper), ceramics, and polymers (polyethylene, epoxies) 
under different loadings such as compression, fatigue, creep, impact, 
scratch and friction. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: No instruments 
of the same general category being manufactured in the United States 
support the technical requirements for high temperature 
nanoindentations, nanoimpact, nanofatigue and wet stage 
nanoindentation. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 
28, 2011.
    Docket Number: 11-040. Applicant: University of Colorado at 
Boulder, Attn: Stuart Littlefield, Procurement Service Center, 1800 
Grant Street, Suite 500, Denver, CO 80202. Instrument: Low-temperature 
atomic force microscope. Manufacturer: attocube systems AG, Germany. 
Intended Use: The instrument will be used to study nano-scale domain 
formation associated with phase

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transitions, transition temperatures, and domain size and order, of 
transition metal oxides, especially magnetoelectric multiferroics, 
manganites, vanadates, and superconductors. Justification for Duty-Free 
Entry: No instruments of the same general category, or comparable 
instruments that could otherwise be used for the intended purpose, are 
being manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: June 28, 2011.
    Docket Number: 11-041. Applicant: Washington University, 660 South 
Euclid Avenue, Saint
    Louis, MO 63110-1093. Instrument: Transmission electron microscope. 
Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument will be 
used to provide dependable ultrastructural analysis to NIH-sponsored 
investigators, extending their capacity to ask disease-related and 
basic science questions with a more sophisticated approach to analyzing 
the relationship of subcellular elements. Justification for Duty-Free 
Entry: No instruments of the same general category, or comparable 
instruments that could otherwise be used for the intended purpose, are 
being manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: June 30, 2011.

    Dated: July 12, 2011.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Office of Policy, Import 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011-18298 Filed 7-19-11; 8:45 am]
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