[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 99 (Monday, May 24, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 28782]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-12427]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Liquid Crystal Institute, 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 5:00 
P.M. in Room 3720, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution 
Avenue., NW, Washington, D.C.
Docket Number: 10-005. Applicant: Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent, OH 
44242. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, the 
Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 75 FR 21232, April 23, 
2010.
Docket Number: 10-006. Applicant: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 
21232, April 23, 2010. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: 
FEI Corporation, the Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 75 FR 
21232, April 23, 2010.
Docket Number: 10-007. Applicant: Washington University in St. Louis, 
St. Louis, MO 63130. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: 
JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 78 FR 21232, April 23, 
2010.
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: May 17, 2010.
Christopher Cassel,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 2010-12427 Filed 5-21-10; 8:45 am]
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