Case ID: cust-ct_10/html/0593-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Ekwall, Judge:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

American Shipping Co. v. United States
    No. 5853.
    Invoices dated Stockholm, Sweden, August 1, 1939, and March 15, 1940.
    Entered at Chicago, Ill., August 26, 1939, and March 29, 1940.
    Entry Nos. 1460 and 6110.
    (Decided April 19, 1943)
    
      Tompkins & Tompkins (J. Stuart Tompkins of counsel) for the plaintiff.
    
      Paul P. Rao, Assistant Attorney General (Daniel I. Auster, special attorney), for the defendant.
   Ekwall, Judge:

These appeals for reappraisement have been submitted for decision upon the following stipulation of counsel for the parties hereto:

It is hereby stipulated by and between counsel for the respective parties hereto, subject to the approval of the court:
(1) That the above-named reappraisement appeals are abandoned insofar as they relatero X-ray grids 12 x 16 inches in size.
(2) That the merchandise involved in the reappraisement appeals above-named (eliminating the 12 x 16 inch grids referred to in paragraph (1) above) consists of X-ray grids 10 x 12 inches, 14 x 17 inches, and 8x10 inches, of the same kind in all material respects as those which were involved in Reappraisement Appeal No. 127782-A, wherein, as to the 10 x-12 inch grids, final decision was rendered by the United States Customs Court, First Division, as reported in Reap. Dec. 5299, and wherein, as to the 14 x 17 inch grids and 8 x 10 inch grids, final decision was rendered by the U. S. Court of Customs & Patent Appeals in the case of American Shipping Company (General Electric X-Ray Corp.) v. United States, Customs Appeal No. 4371, as reported in C. A. D. 198; that the issue herein and conditions as to the market value are the same as the issue and conditions as to the market value in the cited case, Reappraisement No. 127782-A, as reported in Reap. Dec. 5299 and C. A. D. 198, and the record in said case is hereby incorporated herein.
(3) That the cost of production and dutiable value for the 10 x 12 inch X-ray grids is 135 Sw. Krs. each, packed, as found in Reap. Dec. 5299.
(4) That the foreign values for the 14 x 17 inch grids and the 8 x 10 inch grids are respectively 275 Sw. Krs. each and 165 Sw. Krs. each, all less 2% discount, packed, as found by the U. S. Court of Customs & Patent Appeals in C. A. D. 198, and that there were no higher export values for said merchandise at the time of exportation thereof.
(5) That the appeals herein are submitted on the foregoing 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 10 x 12-inch X-Ray grids, and that such value is 135 Sw. Krs. each, packed.

I further find the foreign value, as that value is defined in section 402 (c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, to be the proper basis for the determination of the value of the 14x17-inch X-Ráy grids and the 8 x 10-inch X-Ray grids, and that such values are respectively 275 Sw. Krs. each and 165 Sw. Krs. each, all less 2 per centum discount, packed.

The appeals having been abandoned insofar as they relate to 12 x 16-inch X-Ray grids, to that extent the appeals are hereby dismissed.

Judgment will be rendered accordingly.