Notice2025-21741
UChicago Argonne LLC et al.: Application(s) for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
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December 2, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 229 (Tuesday, December 2, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55301-55302]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-21741]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
UChicago Argonne LLC 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 December 22, 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#410437206f0a282c0135332025246f262e37"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="206556410e6b494d6054524144450e474f56">[email protected]</span></a>.
Docket Number: 25-034. Applicant: UChicago Argonne LLC., 9700 South
Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois, 60439. Instrument: 352-MHz/160kW Solid
State Radio Frequency Amplifier Systems. Manufacturer: R & K Company
Limited, Japan. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to study grain
structure, grain boundary and interstitial defects and morphology.
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 20,
2025.
Docket Number: 25-058. Applicant: Battelle Memorial Institute,
Pacific Northwest Division, 902 Battelle Blvd., Richland, Washington
99354. Instrument: Transmitter Tags. Manufacturer: Lotek Wireless,
Inc., Canada. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to
estimate survival and other quantitative metrics of juvenile chinook
salmon and steelhead. 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: June 17, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-059. Applicant: Fermi Forward Discovery Group
LLC, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510. Instrument: Particle
Accelerator's Neutrino Receiving and Detecting Instrument.
Manufacturers: European Organization for Nuclear Research
(Switzerland); The Science and Technology Facilities Council of UK
(United Kingdom); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy);
Institut National de Physique Nucleairie et de Physique des Particules
(France); Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil); Ministerio de
Ciencia e Innovacion (Spain); The Czech Ministry of Education (Czech
Republic); The Canadian Foundation for Innovation: John R. Evans
Leaders Fund and Ontario Research Fund (Canada); Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council of Canada (Canada); University of Bern
(Switzerland). Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to
study (1) how neutrinos oscillate (change flavors) over long distances;
(2) whether neutrinos and antineutrinos behave differently; and (3) how
neutrinos interact with matter, by analyzing the types and frequency of
different reactions. 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: June 11, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-060. Applicant: UChicago Argonne LLC, 9700 S Cass
Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439. Instrument: Circulator Switch.
Manufacturer: AFT Microwave GMBH, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument
is intended to be used for the transmission of rf energy to the
Advanced Photon Source storage ring to support a circulating electron
beam. 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:
June 17, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-061. Applicant: Columbia University, 538 W 120
St, New York 10027. Instrument: Narrow Linewidth Laser (1076.5 nm
wavelength and greater than 50 W of output power). Manufacturer:
Shanghai Precilasers Technology Co., Ltd., China. Intended Use: The
instrument is intended to be used to study quantum many-body physics
with ultracold sodium-cesium molecules. 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: June 26, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-062. Applicant: California Institute of
Technology 1200 E California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125. Instrument:
Narrow Linewidth Laser (633 nm wavelength and 8W of output power).
Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilasers Technology Co., Ltd., China.
Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to conduct quantum
science experiments with strontium-88 atoms in optical tweezer arrays.
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: June
26, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-063. Applicant: The Pennsylvania State University
180 Pollock Road, 308 Old Main University Park, Pennsylvania 16802.
Instrument: Narrow Linewidth Laser (845 nm wavelength and 15W of output
power). Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilasers Technology Co., Ltd., China.
Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to study Rydberg
atom arrays for quantum simulation experiments. 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: July 18, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-064. Applicant: University of Colorado JILA
Department, Campus Box 440 UCB, JILA Bldg. Room S/175 Boulder, Colorado
80309. Instrument: Closed-Sycle Cryostat Integrated with a
Superconducting Magnet and Nanopositioners. Manufacturer: Attocube
Systems AG, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be
used to study solid-state quantum 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: July 18, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-065. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge,
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Massachusetts 02139. Instrument: Dilution Refrigerator (base
temperature below 10mK, cooling power at 20mK of more than 35[micro]W,
cooling power at 100mK or more than 1000[micro]W and cool down to base
temperature in less than 30 hours unloaded). Manufacturer: Bluefors
Inc., Finland. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to
perform research in superconducting quantum computing. 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: June 26, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-066. Applicant: UChicago Argonne LLC, 9700 S Cass
Avenue Lemont, Illinois 60439. Instrument: Stepper Motors.
Manufacturer: Daniel F. Crews LLC, Japan. Intended Use: The instrument
is intended to be used to assemble the new Bionanoprobe-Il instrument
at the Advanced Photon Source. 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: June 24, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-068. Applicant: University of South Carolina,
Osborne Administration Building, Suite 202, 915 Bull Street, Columbia,
South Carolina 29208. Instrument: JEM-F200 (C-HR): Multi-Purpose
Electron Microscope and EM-20230CFEG: Cold Field Emission Gun with
Radiant Panels). Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The
instrument is intended to be used in projects such as the imaging of
nanomaterials to determine particle size distributions; evaluating the
size and shape distributions of ``magic size'' quantum dots; and
determining the structure and chemical composition of rare-earth and
transition metal 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: June 18, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-069. Applicant: UChicago Argonne LLC, 9700 South
Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439. Instrument: Fluorescence Electron
Detector. Manufacturer: Quantum Detectors Unlimited, United Kingdom.
Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to study the
properties of semiconductors, metals and oxides. 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: June 18, 2025.
Docket Number: 25-071. Applicant: University of California Santa
Barbara, 1210 Cheadle Hall, Santa Barbara, California 93106.
Instrument: FT-NMT04 Nanomechanical Testing System. Manufacturer:
Femtotools (part of Oxford Instruments), United Kingdom. Intended Use:
The instrument is intended to be used to test advanced metal alloys and
ceramic materials designed for high temperature environments.
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: June
20, 2025.
Dated: November 26, 2025.
Tyler J. O'Daniel,
Acting Director, Subsidies Enforcement, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2025-21741 Filed 12-1-25; 8:45 am]
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