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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			NORTHERN TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000875582
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	COATING, ENGRAVING & ALLIED SERVICES [3470]
		IRS NUMBER:				410857886
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0831

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	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		4201 WOODLAND ROAD
		STREET 2:		PO BOX 69
		CITY:			CIRCLE PINES
		STATE:			MN
		ZIP:			55014
		BUSINESS PHONE:		(763) 225-6601

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		4201 WOODLAND ROAD
		STREET 2:		PO BOX 69
		CITY:			CIRCLE PINES
		STATE:			MN
		ZIP:			55014

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		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	NORTHERN INSTRUMENTS CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19930328
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">June&nbsp;24,
2010</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">VIA EDGAR AND FACSIMILE</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Securities
and Exchange Commission</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Division
of Corporation Finance</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">100
F Street, N.E.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Washington,
D.C. 20549</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Fax:
(703) 813-6968</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Attn:<b>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </b>Mr.&nbsp;John
Hartz</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Senior
Assistant Chief Accountant</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.5in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Re:</font></b><b><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;font-weight:bold;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></b><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Northern
Technologies International Corporation</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Form&nbsp;10-K for the Year Ended August&nbsp;31, 2009</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">File Number: 1-11038</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Dear
Mr.&nbsp;Hartz:</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">This
letter is in response to your letter, dated June&nbsp;17, 2010, to the
undersigned as Chief Financial Officer of Northern Technologies International
Corporation (&#147;NTIC&#148;), regarding NTIC&#146;s annual report on Form&nbsp;10-K for the
fiscal year ended August&nbsp;31, 2009.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">For
your convenience, please note that your comments are repeated below in
italicized type, and the numbered items below correspond to the number of the
corresponding comment set forth in your letter.&#160;
Our responses are provided below each comment.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Form&nbsp;10-K
for the fiscal year ended August&nbsp;31, 2009</font></b></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">MD&amp;A
&#151; Liquidity and Capital Resources, page&nbsp;37</font></u></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.5in;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">1.</font></i><i><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;font-style:italic;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></i><i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">Comment:&#160; We have read your proposed disclosures in
response to prior comment three.&#160; Given
the significant time periods that receivables appear to remain outstanding,
please enhance your proposed disclosures in future annual and quarterly filings
to also disclose the actual days outstanding by receivable type for each
period.&#160; For certain receivables, it
appears that your proposed disclosures focus on fluctuations in days
outstanding rather than also addressing actual days outstanding.&#160; Please revise future annual and quarterly
filings to also discuss the typical contractual terms of receivables, the
reasons why receivables exceeded those terms, and when and how you assess
receivables for collectability.</font></i></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">Response</font></i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">:&#160; As
requested, we will enhance our proposed disclosures in future annual and
quarterly filings to disclose the actual days outstanding by receivable type
for each time period.&#160; In addition, in
future annual and quarterly filings, we will discuss the typical contractual
terms of receivables, the reasons why receivables exceeded those terms, and
when and how we assess receivables for collectability.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.5in;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Consolidated Financial Statements</font></u></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.5in;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Consolidated Statements of Operations, page&nbsp;45</font></u></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.5in;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">2.</font></i><i><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;font-style:italic;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></i><i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">Comment:&#160; We have considered your response to prior
comment four and will not object to your proposed format or to providing that
format in future filings.&#160; However, when
you file your next Form&nbsp;10-Q, please include, on an unaudited basis, your
statements of operations for the years ended August&nbsp;31, 2009 and 2008
based on the revised format.&#160; Also,
please clarify in future filings the specific nature of the line item &#147;corporate
joint venture and holding companies expense&#148; and better title it to reflect the
nature of these expenses.</font></i></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">Response:</font></i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#160; As
requested, in our next quarterly report on Form&nbsp;10-Q, we will include, on
an unaudited basis, our statements of operations for the years ended August&nbsp;31,
2009 and 2008 based on the revised format previously proposed by us.&#160; In addition, in future filings, we will
clarify the specific nature of the line item &#147;corporate joint venture and
holding company expense&#148; and better title it to reflect the nature of these
expenses.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.5in;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Investments in Corporate Joint Ventures, page&nbsp;52</font></u></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.5in;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">3.</font></i><i><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;font-style:italic;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></i><i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">Comment:&#160; We have read your response to prior comment
six.&#160; Based on the additional information
you provided, it appears to us that your German joint venture and ASEAN are
individually significant to consolidated assets and/or income.&#160; Based on the number and significance of your
equity investees, we strongly encourage you to revise future annual and quarterly
filings to separately provide disclosures under Rule&nbsp;8-03 of Regulation
S-X for each equity investee that is significant individually and to provide
combined disclosures for all other equity investees.&#160; Regardless of your disclosures under Rule&nbsp;8-03
of Regulation S-X, please revise MD&amp;A in future annual and quarterly
filings to separately disclose and discuss the impact of each significant
equity investee as well as the impact of all equity investees.&#160; Notwithstanding our prior comment, we will
not object if you disclose and discuss joint venture product sales in MD&amp;A
to explain fluctuations in &#147;fees for services provided to corporate joint
ventures&#148; as long as you clearly indicate that joint venture product sales are
not your product sales and you do not combine or discuss joint venture product
sales with your product sales.&#160; Also,
please confirm that you will provide additional disclosures regarding when and
how you evaluate corporate joint ventures for impairment in future filings.</font></i></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">Response</font></i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">:&#160; As requested,
in future annual and quarterly filings, we will separately provide disclosures
under Rule&nbsp;8-03 of Regulation S-X for each equity investee that is
significant individually and provide combined disclosures for all other equity
investees.&#160; In addition, we will revise
the MD&amp;A section in our future annual and quarterly filings to separately
disclose and discuss the impact of each significant equity investee as well as
the impact of all equity investees.&#160; In addition,
if we disclose and discuss joint venture product sales in the MD&amp;A section
of our future annual and quarterly filings to explain fluctuations in &#147;fees for
services provided to corporate joint ventures,&#148; we will clearly indicate that
joint venture product sales are not our product sales and we will not combine
or discuss our joint venture product sales with our product sales.&#160; In addition, in future filings, we will
provide additional disclosures regarding when and how we evaluate corporate
joint ventures for impairment.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Geographic
and Segment Information, page&nbsp;57</font></u></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.5in;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">4.</font></i><i><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;font-style:italic;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></i><i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">Comment:&#160; Based on the information you provided in
response to prior comment seven, it is not clear to us the significant of or
distinction between Zerust-North America and Zerust Oil&nbsp;&amp; Gas,
including if these are separate product lines, separate customer types, or
separate operating segments that have been aggregated.&#160; Please advise.&#160; Also, please revise future filings to provide
enterprise-wide geographic disclosures for &#147;fees for services provided to
corporate joint ventures&#148;.</font></i></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-indent:-.5in;"><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic;">Response</font></i><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">: <b>&#160;</b>We supplementally advise the Staff
that Zerust-North America and Zerust Oil&nbsp;&amp; Gas have been aggregated
into one reporting segment.&#160; In addition,
please note that the Company has not yet incurred revenues from its Zerust Oil&nbsp;&amp;
Gas business, but has budgeted for such revenues in fiscal year 2010.&#160; In the reports that NTIC&#146;s chief operating
decision maker receives, the financial information for Zerust &#151; North America
includes Zerust Oil&nbsp;&amp; Gas.&#160;
However, Zerust Oil&nbsp;&amp; Gas is a new market opportunity for NTIC,
so management also reviews Zerust Oil&nbsp;&amp; Gas financial information
separately to assist in determining future product commitment.&#160; The products sold through Zerust Oil&nbsp;&amp;
Gas are the same or very close derivatives of NTIC&#146;s traditional Zerust North
America products.&#160; Zerust Oil&nbsp;&amp;
Gas products and NTIC&#146;s traditional Zerust North America products are sold
through the same internal and external sales people and are produced in similar
manners by the same employees of NTIC.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">As
requested, in future filings, we will provide enterprise-wide geographic
disclosures for &#147;fees for services provided to corporate joint ventures&#148;.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In
connection with this response, Northern Technologies International Corporation
acknowledges that:</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .75in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">1.</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Northern Technologies
International Corporation is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the
disclosure in the filing;</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .75in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">2.</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Staff comments or changes to
disclosure in response to Staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from
taking any action with respect to the filing; and</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .75in;text-indent:-.25in;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">3.</font><font size="1" style="font-size:3.0pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Northern Technologies
International Corporation may not assert Staff comments as a defense in any
proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal
securities laws of the United States.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">After
you have had an opportunity to review the above response to your comment,
please call me at (763) 225-6637 to discuss any further questions or comments
you might have concerning the responses contained in this letter.</font></p>

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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Very
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