Case ID: cust-ct_7/html/0461-01.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

Frank P. Dow Co., Inc. (Geo. Borgfeldt Corp.) v. United States
    No. 5413.
    Invoices dated Yokohama, Japan, November 29, 1935, December 16, 1936, etc.
    Entered at Seattle, Wash., December 18, 1935, Sumas, Wash., January 10, 1937, etc.
    Entry Nos. 2920, 579-K, etc.
    (Decided September 4, 1941)
    
      James W. Bevans for the plaintiff.
    
      Paul P. Bao, Assistant Attorney General (Daniel I. Auster, special attorney),, for the defendant.
   Oliver, Presiding Judge:

The 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 stipulated and agreed by and between counsel for plaintiff and the Assistant-Attorney General, counsel for the United States, subject to the approval of the Court, as follows:
That the rayon parasols covered by the appeals enumerated in the attached schedule were appraised on the same basis as the rayon wearing apparel which was covered by the decision in United States v. Nippon Dry Goods Co., Reap. Dec. 5006, affirming Reap. Dec. 4704; that the issue herein is the same, namely, the inclusion of the so-called Japanese Consumption Tax as a part of market value; and that the record in that case may be incorporated herein.
It is further stipulated that the appraised values of the rayon parasols covered by the appeals enumerated in the attached schedule, less any additions made by the importer by reason of the so-called Japanese Consumption Tax, represent the export values of such merchandise under the decision above cited; and that there were no higher foreign values at the time of exportation.
The reappraisement appeals enumerated in the annexed schedule are abandoned as to all merchandise other than the aforementioned rayon parasols; and the said reappraisement appeals are hereby submitted for decision on this stipulation.

On the agreed facts I find the export value, as that value is defined in section 402 (d) of the Tariff Act of 1930, to be the proper basis for the determination of the value of the merchandise here involved, and that for the rayon parasols such values are the appraised values, less any additions made by the importer by reason of the so-called Japanese Consumption Tax.

The appeals having been abandoned insofar as they relate to all other merchandise, to that extent the appeals are hereby dismissed. Judgment will be rendered accordingly.