Notice2025-15542
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory et al. Application(s) for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 156 (Friday, August 15, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39377-39378]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-15542]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory et al. 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 September 4, 2025. Address
written comments to Statutory Import Programs Staff, Room 40005, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. Please also email a copy
of those comments to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#105566713e5b797d5064627174753e777f66"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="185d6e7936537175586c6a797c7d367f776e">[email protected]</span></a>.
Docket Number: 25-024. Applicant: Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720. Instrument: Helium
Liquefaction Plant. Manufacturer: Air Liquide Advanced Technologies,
France. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to enhance the testing
capabilities for high-current, large-stored-energy superconducting
magnets through reliable, efficient, and high-capacity cryogenic
support. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the applicant,
there are no instruments of the same general category manufactured in
the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May
9, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-025. Applicant: Stanford University, 450 Jane
Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305. Instrument: Ultrafast Electron
Diffraction (UED) with Radiofrequency Compression. Manufacturer: e-Ray
Scientific, Canada. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to study
how various materials such as magnets, metals, and insulators change
their structure after being hit by short laser pulses, exploring
interactions among electrons and atoms within these materials, and
observing their rapid responses in detail. Justification for Duty-Free
Entry: According to the applicant, there are no instruments of the same
general category manufactured in the United States. Application
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 12, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-026. Applicant: Stanford University, 450 Jane
Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305. Instrument: Coherent Astrella Laser
Amplifier System. Manufacturer: Coherent, United Kingdom. Intended Use:
The instrument is intended to investigate how a wide range of
crystalline solids, including metals, magnets, and insulators respond
to the illumination of intense light pulses. Justification for Duty-
Free Entry: According to the applicant, there are no instruments of the
same general category manufactured in the United States. Application
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 14, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-027. Applicant: Trustees of Indiana University,
107 S Indiana Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405. Instrument: High-Precision
Multi-Channel Voltage Supply. Manufacturer: ISEG HV, Germany. Intended
Use: The instrument is intended to study an array of trapped atomic
ions which must be confined using precision voltages applied to
electrodes of the ion trap and to construct a state-of-the-art quantum
simulation device. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the
applicant, there are no instruments of the same general category
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: May 30, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-030. Applicant: California Institute of
Technology, 1200 E California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125. Instrument:
Intra-cavity doubled, low noise, high-power narrow linewidth VECSEL
laser at 460.862 nm wavelength and 1.5W power. Manufacturer: Vexlum
Ltd., Finland. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to use
ytterbium and strontium atoms trapped in optical tweezer arrays to
realize a programmable optical clock platform which will be used to
study how quantum-enhancement metrology can be realized through large-
scale entangled states. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to
the applicant, there are no instruments of the same general category
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: May 30, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-031. Applicant: Trustees of Purdue University,
2550 Northwestern Ave., Suite 1100, West Lafayette, IN 47906.
Instrument: Unitree Humanoid Robot. Manufacturer: HangZhou YuShu
Technology Co., Ltd., China. Intended Use: The instrument is intended
to develop and deploy task-oriented generative Al modules to enable
advanced, fine-grained and precise motion control, and real-time
reasoning in multi-humanoid robot systems; develop a generative Al-
powered real-time collaborative and
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communication framework for multi-human multi-humanoid robot
interaction; and design a scalable and adaptive human-robot interface
to effectively support both human-in-the-loop and human-on-the-loop
decision making. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the
applicant, there are no instruments of the same general category
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: May 30, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-033. Applicant: University of South Florida, 4202
E Fowler Ave., Tampa, FL 33620. Instrument: Miniature Two Photon
Microscope. Manufacturer: Nanjing Transcend Vivoscope Bio-Technology
Co., Ltd., China. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to record
fluorescent signals in specific populations of neuronal or non-neuronal
cells in mice brains and to develop the principles regarding how these
brain cells encode and/or regulate behaviors of mice. Justification for
Duty-Free Entry: According to the applicant, there are no instruments
of the same general category manufactured in the United States.
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 30, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-035. Applicant: UChicago Argonne LLC, 9700 South
Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439. Instrument: Detector Manipulation
System. Manufacturer: JJ X-Ray A/S, Denmark. Intended Use: The
instrument is intended to be used to accurately position detectors over
a large motion range with high stability. The system will be used for
operations at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a third-generation
synchrotron light source that produces very bright and concentrated x-
ray beams used for imaging in material science and biomedical
applications. The instrument will further the understanding of
different materials and material properties, and aid in the development
of new materials. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the
applicant, there are no instruments of the same general category
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: May 30, 2025.
Dated: August 11, 2025.
Tyler J. O'Daniel,
Acting Director, Subsidies and Economic Analysts, Enforcement and
Compliance.
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