Commerce 就多所高校科研仪器免税进口申请作出批准决定

Department of Commerce

International Trade Administration

This is a decision 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). On September 4, 2026, the Department of Commerce published a notice in the Federal Register requesting public comment on whether instruments of equivalent scientific value, for the purposes for which the instruments identified in the docket(s) below are intended to be used, are being manufactured in the United States. See Northwestern University and Cornell University et. al; Application(s) for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments91 FR 56858, September 4, 2026. We received no public comments.

Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. We know of no instrument of equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument described below, for such purposes as this is intended to be used, that was being manufactured in the United States at the time of order.

Docket No.	Applicant	Instrument
26-008	Northwestern University and Cornell University	Upgrade Parts for Cryostat.
26-019	The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Single frequency 652 nm VECSEL laser.
26-035	The University of Texas at Austin	Dilution refrigerator system LD400.
26-041	Rice University	Model BF-LD250 Cryogen-free refrigerator system.
26-049	Cornell University	Dilution refrigerator.
26-054	Vanderbilt University	Widely Tunable OPO Laser Source based near-field illumination unit for neaSCOPE microscope.
26-059	University of California Berkeley	Dilution Refrigerator.
26-064	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	ProteoxMX Dilution Refrigerator.
26-075	University of California Berkeley	Custom Dilution Refrigerator with optical access and low vibrations.
26-076	New York University	Dilution Refrigerator.
26-083	University of California Berkeley	LD250He Refrigerator System.
26-087	Purdue University	Optical Cryostat—attoDRY2100.
26-091	Purdue University	Dilution Refrigerator and 12T Magnet.
26-092	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	TeslatronPT with 14T Magnet.
26-094	Purdue University	Optical Cryostat—attoDRY800.
26-104	University of California, Riverside	Pharos PH2-20W-SP Laser A.
26-107	California Institute of Technology	Tunable Low-Noise Laser.
26-113	Boston University	Femtosecond Laser.
26-115	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Dilution Refrigerator.
26-116	The Regents of the University of Michigan	Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy analyzer, chamber, and light source.
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26-117	Rice University	neofleX MALDI-TOF/TOF MS System.
26-119	University at Buffalo	MyoDish.
26-120	University of California Santa Barbara	Energy and angle resolved electron analyzer.
26-128	Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC	8kW Solid State Amplifier.
26-131	University of Rochester	Electron Microscope
26-134	University of Delaware	Ultra-High Vacuum System for X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy.
26-135	Texas Tech University	SpectromagPT system low voltage with 7T Magnet.
26-138	Washington and Lee University	inVia Qontor Spectrometer System.
26-147	Regents of University of California at Berkeley	Dilution Refrigerator.

Dated: November 3, 2026.

Lana Nigro,

Acting Director, Subsidies Enforcement, Enforcement and Compliance.

[FR Doc. 2026-22698 Filed 11-5-26; 8:45 am]

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