Federal Register #2026-22698

Commerce approves duty-free entry for 29 scientific instruments

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration approved duty-free entry for scientific instruments requested by universities and research organizations. - Government buyer and decision-maker: U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. The notice does not identify a purchasing office or sub-agency beyond the International Trade Administration. - Applicants: Northwestern University; Cornell University; University of Michigan; University of Texas at Austin; Rice University; Vanderbilt University; University of California, Berkeley; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; New York University; Purdue University; University of California, Riverside; California Institute of Technology; Boston University; University of Wisconsin–Madison; University of California, Santa Barbara; Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC; University of Rochester; University of Delaware; Texas Tech University; Washington and Lee University; and University at Buffalo. - OEMs and vendors: No manufacturers, OEMs, or resellers are identified by name. Product names and model designations are not sufficient to establish a manufacturer. - Equipment covered: Cryostat upgrade parts; a 652 nm single-frequency VECSEL laser; LD400 and BF-LD250 refrigerator systems; dilution refrigerators, including a ProteoxMX and a custom low-vibration model with optical access; a tunable OPO laser source for a neaSCOPE microscope; an LD250He refrigerator; attoDRY2100 and attoDRY800 optical cryostats; dilution refrigerators paired with 12T and 14T magnets; TeslatronPT with a 14T magnet; Pharos PH2-20W-SP Laser A; tunable low-noise and femtosecond lasers; an angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy analyzer system; neofleX MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry system; MyoDish; an energy- and angle-resolved electron analyzer; an 8 kW solid-state amplifier; an electron microscope; an ultra-high-vacuum system for X-ray photoelectron and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy; SpectromagPT with a 7T magnet; and an inVia Qontor spectrometer. - Quantities and requirements: The notice does not state quantities or identify manufacturers. Commerce reported no public comments and found no U.S.-manufactured instrument of equivalent scientific value for the stated purposes.

Description

The Department of Commerce announces its decision under the Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act on applications for duty-free entry of scientific instruments. Following a prior request for public comment on whether equivalent instruments were manufactured in the United States, no comments were received. The applications listed in the notice were approved; Commerce found no instrument of equivalent scientific value being manufactured in the United States at the time of order.

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