Case ID: cust-ct_50/html/0485-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Oliver, Chief Judge:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(Reap. Dec. 10526)
    Unitron Import Corp. (Wiley) et al. v. United States
    Entry No. 33712, etc.
    (Decided June 6, 1963)
    
      Lawrence & Tuttle for the plaintiffs.
    
      John W. Douglas, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.
   Oliver, Chief Judge:

The appeals for reappraisement enumerated in schedule “A,” hereto attached and made a part hereof, have been submitted for decision on a written stipulation, reading as follows:

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED, by and between the parties hereto, subject to the approval of the court, as follows:
1. That the appeals for reappraisement set forth in Schedule “A” hereto attached and made a part hereof are abandoned only so far as the merchandise shipped by High Value Enterprises or S. Tomita & Co. is concerned.
2. That all of the remaining merchandise covered by the appeals for re-appraisement set forth in Schedule “A” hereto attached and made a part hereof was entered or withdrawn from Customs warehouse for consumption after the effective date of the Customs Simplification Act of 1956 and was therefore appraised under Section 402(b) of the Simplification Act of 1936 [sie], Public Law 927, 84th Congress, 2nd Session; said merchandise not being identified in the Pinal List published in T.D. 54521.
3. That as to the merchandise shipped by the following from Japan:
Ejima Seiren Shokai
Hasegawa Blinds Pactory
Hasegawa Shoten
Hasegawa Shoten Co.
Inoue Seiren
Inoue Seiren K.K.
Kajishin Shoten
Kurakawa Tsusho Co. Ltd.
Nakagawa Seiren
Nakagawa Sudare Shokai
Shimamura Shoten
Umekawa Seiren Shokai
Yamaguchi-ken Sudare Kumiai
at the time of exportation to the United States, the prices at which such or similar merchandise was freely sold or offered for sale in the principal markets of Japan, in the usual wholesale quantities and in the ordinary course of trade, for exportation to the United States, were the unit invoice values, net packed, or plus packing where packing is listed separately on the invoices as not being included in the unit invoice values.
4. That, with regard to the remaining merchandise covered by these appeals for reappraisement, at the time of exportation to the United States, the prices at which such or similar merchandise was freely sold or offered for sale in the principal markets of Japan, in the usual wholesale quantities and in the ordinary course of trade, for exportation to the United States, were the appraised unit values, less any buying commission noted on the invoices and included in the appraised unit values.
5. That the appeals for reappraisement set forth in Schedule “A”, are submitted on this stipulation.

On the agreed facts, I find that the proper basis for appraisement of the merchandise in question is export value, as defined in section 402(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by T.D. 54165, and hold that such value therefor is as follows:

1. Statutory export value of merchandise shipped from Japan by Ejima Seiren Shokai, Hasegawa Blinds Factory, Hasegawa Shoten, Hasegawa Shoten Co., Inoue Seiren, Inoue Seiren K. K., Kajishin Shoten, Kurakawa Tsusho Co., Ltd., Nakagawa Seiren, Nakagawa Sudare Shokai, Shimamura Shoten, Umekawa Seiren Shokai, and Yamaguchi-ken Sudare Kumiai is the unit invoice values, net, packed, or plus packing where packing is listed separately on the invoices as not being included in the unit invoice values.

2. Statutory export value, for all other merchandise, except that shipped by High Value Enterprises or S. Tomita & Co., included in the shipments covered by the entries involved in these appeals for reappraisement is the appraised unit values, less any buying commission noted on the invoices and included in the appraised unit values.

So far as these appeals for reappraisement relate to merchandise shipped by High Value Enterprises or S. Tomita & Go., the same are dismissed.

Judgment will be rendered accordingly.