Case ID: cust-ct_6/html/0998-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Oliver, Presiding Judge:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Van Oppen & Co., Inc., et al. v. United States
    No. 5288.
    Entry No. 851135, etc.
    Invoices’"dated Choisy le Roi, France, May 30, 1936, etc.
    Entered at New York June 8, 1936, etc.
    (Decided May 29, 1941)
    
      Siegel & Mandell (Sidney Mandell of counsel) for the plaintiffs.
    
      Charles D. Lawrence, Acting Assistant Attorney General' (Daniel I. Auster, special attorney), for the defendant.
   Oliver, Presiding Judge:

TLe appeals to reappraisement listed in schedule A, hereto attached and made a part hereof, have been submitted for decision upon the following stipulation of counsel for the parties hereto:

It is hereby stipulated and agreed, by and between counsel for the respective parties hereto, subject to the approval of the Court, that the merchandise covered by the reappraisements enumerated on Schedule “A”, hereto attached and made a part hereof, consists of bottles and jars, similar in all material respects to the merchandise the subject of United States v. Guerlain, Inc., decided in C. A. D. 146.
It is further stipulated and agreed, that the said merchandise was appraised upon the cost of production under Section 402-(f) of the Tariff Act of 1930.
■ It is further stipulated and agreed, that the issue with respect to said merchandise, covered by the reappraisements enumerated in Schedule “A”, hereto attached and made a part hereof, is the same as the issue involved in the case of United States v. Guerlain, Inc., supra.
It is further stipulated and agreed, that the appraised values of the glass bottles and jars contained in said invoices, less any additions made by the importer to meet advances made by the Appraiser in similar cases, are equal to the cost of materials, fabrication, manipulation or other process employed' in manufacturing or producing such merchandise, plus the usual general expenses, plus the cost of all containers, coverings and other costs, charges and expenses incident to placing the merchandise in packed condition ready for shipment to the United States and plus an addition for profit equal to the,profit which ordinarily is added, in the .case of merchandise of the same general character by manufacturers or producers in the country of manufacture who are engaged in the manufacture of merchandise of the same class or kind.
It is further stipulated and agreed, between the parties hereto, that the record in C. A. D. 146 be incorporated and made a part of the record in the reappraise-ments enumerated on Schedule “A”, hereto attached and made a part hereof, and that the reappraisements be deemed submitted on this stipulation.

On the agreed facts I find the cost of production, as that value is defined in section 402 (f) of the Tariff Act of 1930, to be the proper basis for the determination of the value of the merchandise here involved, and that such values are the appraised values less any additions made by the importer to meet advances made by the appraiser in similar cases.

Judgment will be rendered accordingly.