Case Name: Gallagher & Ascher Co. v. United States
Court: United States Customs Court
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1969-05-01
Citations: 62 Cust. Ct. 946
Docket Number: R.D. 11667; Entry No. 20464
Parties: Gallagher & Ascher Co. v. United States
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Customs Court Reports
Volume: 62
Pages: 946–947

Head Matter:
(R.D. 11667)
Gallagher & Ascher Co. v. United States
Entry No. 20464.
(Decided on rehearing [not published.] May 1, 1969)
Schwarts! & Lidstrom for the plaintiff.
William D. Ruclcelshaus, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Opinion:
FoRd, Judge:
The proper basis for dutiable purposes of certain machines covered by the above appeal for a reappraisement is before the court for determination.
The parties hereto have entered into a stipulation of fact wherein it has been agreed as follows:
IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED, subject to approval by the court:
1. The merchandise covered by this case consists of two Packetron High-Speed Continuous Motion Pouch Machines plus one Nu-Roll Web Splicer, exported after February 27, 1958, the effective date of Section 2 of the Customs Simplification Act of 1956.
2. Said merchandise is not identified in the final list published by the Secretary of the Treasury in TD 54521, pursuant to said Customs Simplification Act of 1956.
3. At the time of exportation to the United States, the price at which such or similar merchandise was freely sold or, in the absence of sales, 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 Canadian $60,600 each for the two Packetron High Speed Motion Pouch Machines including American goods returned amounting to U.S. $923.50 each and U.S. $1,725.65 each; and Canadian $5,000 for the Nu-Roll Web Splicer including American goods returned amounting to U.S. $2,040.
4. This appeal is submitted upon this stipulation.
Upon the record before the court, I find and hold that export value, as that value is defined in section 402(b), Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the Customs Simplification Act of 1956, 91 Treas. Dec. 295, T.D. 54165, is the proper basis of value for the two Packetron High-Speed Continuous Motion Pouch Machines and that said value is at Canadian $60,600 each, less American goods returned amounting to United States $923.50 each and United States $1,725.65 each, packed; and that export value as that value is defined in section 402(b), supra, is the proper basis of value for the Nu Roll Web Splicer, and that said value is at Canadian $5,000, less American goods returned amounting to United States $2,040, packed.
Judgment will be entered accordingly.