Case ID: cust-ct_61/html/0476-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Rao, Chief Judge:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(R.D. 11570)
    Entry No. 746266, etc.
    Trans World Shipg. Corp. v. United States
    (Decided August 14, 1968)
    
      Barnes, Richardson & Colburn; Oadwalader, Wiclcersham & Taft of counsel to Alan S. Mays, associate counsel; for the plaintiff.
    
      Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.
   Rao, Chief Judge:

The appeals for reappraisement enumerated on schedule “A,” annexed to this decision and made a part hereof, have been submitted for decision upon a written stipulation of counsel for the respective parties hereto which reads 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 merchandise covered by the appeals for reappraisement enumerated on Schedule “A” hereto attached and made a part hereof consists of various parts and accessories for automobiles and internal combustion engines exported from the United Kingdom; that the said merchandise was entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after the effective date (February 27, 1958) of Section 6(a) of the Customs Simplification Act of 1956 (T.D. 54165).

(2) That the following merchandise covered by the appeals enumerated in said Schedule “A” is not identified on the Final List (T.D. 54521) published by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to the said Customs Simplification Act:

(a) Spark plugs and parts thereof;

(b) all other articles which were advisorily classified under a paragraph of the Tariff Act of 1930 as amended other than paragraph 369 (except electric motors not over 75 horsepower advisorily classified under paragraph 353).

(3) That with regard to the merchandise covered by paragraph 2 hereof, the price at the time of exportation to the United States at which such or similar merchandise was freely sold or offered for sale in the principal markets of the country of exportation, in the usual wholesale quantities and in the ordinary course of trade for exportation to the United States, including the cost of all containers and coverings of whatever nature and all other expenses incidental to placing the merchandise in condition, packed ready for shipment to the United States, was the invoice unit price as indicated in the column marked “Selling Price to Customers”, plus the pro rata share of the cost of cases and packing labor as invoiced.

(4) That with regard to merchandise other than that described in paragraph 2 hereof, the said merchandise is enumerated on the said Final List as “Automobile parts, finished” or as “Motors, electric, not over 75 horsepower”; that on or about the dates of exportation, such or similar merchandise was not freely offered to all purchasers, either for domestic consumption in the United Kingdom or for exportation to the United States; that on or about the dates of exportation, such or similar imported merchandise was not freely offered to all purchasers for domestic consumption in the United States; that the merchandise was accordingly appraised under cost of production, Section 402a(f), Tariff Act of 1930 as amended by the said Customs Simplification Act; that neither party challenges the said basis of appraisement.

(5) That the cost of production of the merchandise described in paragraph 4 hereof, as defined in said Section 402a(f), is as follows:

(a) items other than electric motors; the entered units of value (home market list prices less 30 percent and less 15 percent) less 63.33 percent, plus the pro rata share of the cost of cases and packing as invoiced.

(b) Electric motors: The invoice unit values plus the pro rata share of the cost of cases and packing as invoiced.

(6) That the appeals for reappraisement enumerated in said Schedule “A” may be submitted on this stipulation.

Upon the agreed facts, we find and hold with regard to the merchandise covered by paragraph “(2)” of the above-quoted stipulation that export value as that value is defined in section 402 (b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the Customs Simplification Act of 1956, is the proper basis for the determination of the value of said merchandise and that such value is the invoice unit price as indicated in the invoice column marked “Selling Price to Customers,” plus the pro rata share of the cost of cases and packing labor as invoiced.

With regard to merchandise other than that described in paragraph “(2),” referred to above, we find and hold that cost of production as that value is defined in section 402a (f) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, supra, is the proper basis for the determination of the value of said merchandise and that such value is as set forth in paragraph “(5) (a)” and “(5) (b)” of the stipulation quoted above.

Judgment will be entered accordingly.