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6See section 782(b) of the Act. 

7See Certification of Factual Information to 

Import Administration During Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings: Interim Final 

Rule, 76 FR 7491 (February 10, 2011) (’’Interim 

Final Rule’’), amending 19 CFR 351.303(g)(1) and 

(2). 

of that information.6 Parties are hereby 

reminded that revised certification 

requirements are in effect for company/ 

government officials as well as their 

representatives in all segments of any 

antidumping duty or countervailing 

duty proceedings initiated on or after 

March 14, 2011.7 The formats for the 

revised certifications are provided at the 

end of the Interim Final Rule. The 

Department intends to reject factual 

submissions in any proceeding 

segments initiated on or after March 14, 

2011 if the submitting party does not 

comply with the revised certification 

requirements. 

This initiation and notice are in 

accordance with section 751(a) of the 

Act (19 USC 1675(a)), and 19 CFR 

351.221(c)(1)(i). 

Dated: February 23, 2012. 

Christian Marsh, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2012–4839 Filed 2–28–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

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 March 20, 

2012. Address written comments to 

Statutory Import Programs Staff, Room 

3720, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

Washington, DC 20230. Applications 

may be examined between 8:30 a.m. and 

5 p.m. at the U.S. Department of 

Commerce in Room 3720. 

Docket Number: 12–004. Applicant: 

Max Planck Florida Institute, 5353 

Parkside Dr MC 19–RE, Jupiter, FL 

33458. Instrument: Freeze Fracture/ 

Freeze Etch device. Manufacturer: JEOL 

Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The 

instrument will be used to reveal the 

two-dimensional localization of 

membrane proteins using freeze fracture 

replica immuno-gold labeling, including 

all kinds of receptors and channels. 

Because freeze-fracture replica immunogold labeling has a high sensitivity for 

the detection of the epitope of the target 

molecules, small numbers of receptors 

that would be easily missed by LM or 

by conventional immuno-EM can be 

revealed using this instrument in 

particular unknown subcellular 

locations. Justification for Duty-Free 

Entry: There are no instruments of the 

same general category manufactured in 

the United States. Application accepted 

by Commissioner of Customs: February 

8, 2012. 

Dated: February 22, 2012. 

Gregory Campbell, 

Director, IA Subsidies Enforcement Office. 

[FR Doc. 2012–4837 Filed 2–28–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

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 March 20, 

2012. Address written comments to 

Statutory Import Programs Staff, Room 

3720, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

Washington, DC 20230. Applications 

may be examined between 8:30 a.m. and 

5 p.m. at the U.S. Department of 

Commerce in Room 3720. 

Docket Number: 11–074. Applicant: 

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 4000 

Jones Bridge Rd., Chevy Chase, MD 

20815. Instrument: Electron Microscope. 

Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech 

Republic. Intended Use: The instrument 

will be used to understand how proteins 

interact with DNA, with a focus on 

proteins that are involved in DNA 

damage recognition and repair. The 

experiments will consist of direct visual 

observations of fluorescently tagged 

DNA and DNA-bound protein molecules 

using total internal reflection 

fluorescence microscopy. The 

instrument will provide the capability 

to generate ‘‘DNA Curtains.’’ 

Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There 

are no instruments of the same general 

category manufactured in the United 

States. Application accepted by 

Commissioner of Customs: December 

21, 2011. 

Docket Number: 12–002. Applicant: 

National Center for Toxicological 

Research, 3900 NCTR Rd., Jefferson, AR 

72079. Instrument: Electron Microscope. 

Manufacturer: JEOL Instruments, Japan. 

Intended Use: The instrument will be 

used to determine the toxicity of 

nanoscale metal oxides culutured cells, 

quantifying the distribution and toxicity 

of nanoscale silver and metal oxides, 

and determining the genotoxicity of 

nanoscale materials in cultured cells. 

Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There 

are no instruments of the same general 

category manufactured in the United 

States. Application accepted by 

Commissioner of Customs: January 10, 

2012. 

Docket Number: 12–005. Applicant: 

VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Azhar 

Lab, Bldg 4, Room C320, 3801 Miranda 

Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304–1207. 

Instrument: Electron Microscope. 

Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech 

Republic. Intended Use: The instrument 

will be used to study cell cultures and 

lab animal tissue specimens for 

verification of normal morphological 

features or morphological changes, as 

well as searching for proteins of interest 

labeled with commercially available 

colloidal gold conjugated to antibodies. 

Cellular organelles can be clearly seen 

and identified using this instrument, 

which would not be visible with a light 

microscope. Justification for Duty-Free 

Entry: There are no instruments of the 

same general category manufactured in 

the United States. Application accepted 

by Commissioner of Customs: February 

8, 2012. 

Docket Number: 12–006. Applicant: 

William Patterson University, 300 

Pompon Rd., Wayne, NJ 07470. 

Instrument: Electron Microscope. 

Manufacturer: Hitachi High 

Technologies America Inc, Japan. 

Intended Use: The instrument will be 

used to study specimens including 

animal tissues, bacteria, insects and 

parasites, involving the examination of 

their morphological and structural 

features. Justification for Duty-Free 

Entry: There are no instruments of the 

same general category manufactured in 

the United States. Application accepted 

by Commissioner of Customs: February 

13, 2012. 


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Dated: February 22, 2012. 

Gregory Campbell, 

Director, IA Subsidies Enforcement Office. 

[FR Doc. 2012–4838 Filed 2–28–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Smart Grid Trade Mission to the United 

Kingdom; London, United Kingdom, 

October 15–17, 2012 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Mission Description 

The United States Department of 

Commerce International Trade 

Administration’s (ITA) U.S. and Foreign 

Commercial Service (USFCS) in London 

is organizing a Smart Grid Trade 

Mission to the United Kingdom, October 

15–17, 2012. 

The Smart Grid Trade Mission offers 

a timely and cost-effective means for 

U.S. firms to engage with key 

stakeholders and to enter the promising 

UK market for smart grid equipment, 

technology and services. Target sectors 

holding high potential for U.S exporters 

include: smart meters and advanced 

metering infrastructure; communication 

and data management software and 

services; grid optimization technologies; 

demand response and control systems; 

cyber security software and services; 

transmission and distribution 

equipment; automation technologies; 

and consumer engagement platforms 

and services. 

Advancing President Obama’s goal of 

positioning the United States as the 

leading exporter of clean energy 

technologies, the mission will support 

the Renewable Energy and Energy 

Efficiency Export Initiative’s (RE4I) 

goals by promoting export opportunities 

for innovative U.S. companies active in 

the smart grid sector. With a focus on 

connecting U.S. companies with the 

major players in the UK electricity 

sector, this mission will provide critical 

market information and will help 

participants establish business and 

government contacts who are involved 

in smart grid and energy efficiency 

projects in the United Kingdom. The 

three-day agenda will include meetings 

with high-level national government 

officials and industry leaders; briefings 

on the UK market and the wider 

European Union market; site visits; 

seminars; and networking opportunities 

in and around the London area. 

The delegation will be comprised of at 

least 15 U.S. firms and a maximum of 

25 U.S. firms representing a crosssection of U.S. industries that have 

developed products and services for the 

smart grid. The mission will also be 

open to representatives of U.S. trade 

associations in the targeted industries 

with a commercial interest in the United 

Kingdom. 

Commercial Setting 

According to the ‘‘Doing Business 

2011’’ report from the World Bank, the 

United Kingdom is the best place to do 

business in the EU and G8 countries: the 

report ranks the United Kingdom first in 

Europe and fourth in the world for ease 

of doing business. 

The United Kingdom has the seventhlargest economy in the world and is a 

major international trading power. 

Highly developed, sophisticated, and 

diversified, the UK market is the single 

largest export market for U.S. services 

exports and the fifth largest in the world 

for U.S. goods exports. With few trade 

barriers, the United Kingdom is in fact 

the entry market into the EU for more 

than 40,000 U.S. exporters. 

Annual U.S. exports to the United 

Kingdom of both goods and services are 

valued at more than $100 billion. The 

U.S.-UK investment relationship is the 

largest in the world with a cumulative 

bilateral stock in direct investment 

valued at over $925 billion, creating 

over two million jobs, about one million 

in each country, to manage and drive 

this investment. 

Over 7,500 U.S. firms maintain a 

presence in the United Kingdom, many 

of which serve as regional headquarters 

for companies covering Europe, the 

Middle East, and Africa. Furthermore, 

London is a major international 

financial hub. Ranked by the Economist 

Intelligence Unit to be ahead of other 

major European economies in the global 

digital economy index, the United 

Kingdom offers world class Information 

and Communication Technology 

infrastructure. 

The UK government has committed to 

reducing the country’s carbon emissions 

by 34% of 1990 levels by 2020 and by 

80% of 1990 levels by 2050. Power 

generation is a major source of carbon 

emissions, with 74% of power generated 

in the United Kingdom coming from 

fossil fuels. As the government seeks to 

reduce dependency on fossil fuels, it 

plans to refurbish its existing electricity 

infrastructure and establish a smart grid. 

Consequently, over $300 billion of 

investment is needed over the next ten 

years to replace older power plants and 

upgrade the grid—twice the rate of 

investment seen in the previous decade. 

The United Kingdom’s determination to 

become a low carbon economy should 

create many opportunities for 

innovative U.S. companies to supply 

‘‘green’’ solutions to help the United 

Kingdom supply sustainable, reliable, 

and secure, low carbon energy sources 

while providing the technologies and 

services that enable energy efficiency 

gains for electricity consumers. 

The smart grid sector is developing 

rapidly in the European Union. The 

United Kingdom is at the forefront, with 

major U.S. companies already providing 

smart grid solutions for electric utilities 

in the region. The challenge of 

efficiently transmitting and distributing 

ever increasing amounts of electricity 

from intermittent and geographically 

spread renewable sources, like wind 

turbines and solar panels, creates a need 

for the utility and related industries to 

modernize and reinvent the way 

electricity is transmitted, distributed 

and consumed. 

To achieve this, electricity utilities in 

the United Kingdom will have to invest 

in information and communication 

technologies, as well as enhanced 

system monitoring and intelligent 

controls that will be needed to securely 

manage a much more complex system, 

while meeting the demand for energy 

with the optimum level of generation 

and network capacity. 

In 2008, the UK Government 

announced that gas and electricity smart 

meters would be rolled out by energy 

suppliers to every home and most small 

businesses in Britain by the end of 2020. 

The mass roll-out of smart meters is 

expected to begin in 2014. Some 54 

million gas and electricity meters will 

need to be replaced over 10 years at an 

expected cost of $18 billion. 

To stimulate innovation in the sector, 

the Government has launched a $10 

million UK Smart Grid Demonstration 

Fund for small projects and has made 

$825 million available through the Low 

Carbon Networks Fund for larger scale 

trials. This has led to a number of UK 

smart technology pilot projects that are 

already underway or in the planning 

stages. In addition to government-led 

smart grid initiatives, private sector 

utilities are expected to invest more 

than $65 billion in the upgrade and 

expansion of the UK’s transmission and 

distribution networks. 

Current studies indicate that 60% of 

UK companies in the energy market 

plan to invest in smart grids over the 

next three years, with a quarter of these 

firms already having committed money. 

This level of investment by government 

and energy companies signals the 

potential commercial opportunities in 

the UK market. It is not surprising, 


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