Case ID: cust-ct_41/html/0590-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mollison, Judge:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(Reap. Dec. 9265)
    Plywood & Door Manufacturers Corporation et al. v. United States
    Entry No. 55, etc.
    (Decided December 4, 1958)
    
      James Wilson Young for the plaintiffs.
    
      George Cochran Douh, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.
   Mollison, Judge:

Counsel have stipulated and agreed in these cases as follows:

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between the respective parties hereto that the merchandise involved in the Appeals for Reap-praisement enumerated on Schedules “A” and “B”, attached hereto and made a part hereof, consists of plywood and blockboard exported from Finland in the years 1955, 1956 and 1957 and that the merchandise is properly valued on the basis of the foreign value as defined in Section 402 (e) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended.
IT IS FURTHER STIPULATED AND AGREED that the value or the price at the time of exportation of such merchandise to the United States at which such or similar merchandise was freely offered for sale to all purchasers in the principal markets of the country from which exported in the usual wholesale quantities and in the ordinary course of trade for home consumption including cost of containers and coverings of whatever nature and all other costs, charges and expenses incident to placing the merchandise ready for shipment to the United States, was with respect to the merchandise referred to in Schedule “A”, the appraised unit values, less 4% net packed and with respect to the merchandise set forth in Schedule “B”, the values set forth in Column “5” thereof, less 4% net packed.
IT IS FURTHER STIPULATED AND AGREED that the appeals for Reappraisepaent enumerated on Schedules “A” and “B”, annexed hereto and made part hereof may be submitted for decision on the foregoing stipulation.

Upon tbe agreed facts, I find that' foreign valué, as defined in section 402 (c) of tbe Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, is tbe proper basis of valuation for tbe merchandise involved, and that sucb value, in tbe case of tbe merchandise covered by tbe appeals for reappraisement enumerated in schedule "A,” attached to and made a part of this decision, was tbe appraised unit values, less 4 per centum, net, packed, and in tbe case of tbe merchandise covered by tbe appeals for reappraisement enumerated in schedule “B,” attached to and made a part of this decision, was tbe values set forth in column “5” thereof, less 4 per centum, net, packed.

Judgment will issue accordingly.