Case Name: Alanjack, Inc., et al v. United States
Court: United States Customs Court
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1967-11-27
Citations: 59 Cust. Ct. 489
Docket Number: C.D. 3206
Parties: Alanjack, Inc., et al v. United States
Judges: Before Rao and Ford, Judges
Reporter: United States Customs Court Reports
Volume: 59
Pages: 489–491

Head Matter:
(C.D. 3206)
Alanjack, Inc., et al v. United States
United States Customs Court, Second Division
(Decided November 27, 1967)
Siegel, Mandell é Davidson for the plaintiffs.
Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.
Before Rao and Ford, Judges

Opinion:
FoRd, Judge:
TRe oases listed in schedule "A," attached hereto and made a part hereof, have been submitted on a written stipulation reading as follows:
IT IS STIPULATED AND AGREED hy and between counsel for the plaintiffs and the Assistant Attorney General for the United States:
That the items marked "A", and checked JO'B JS JD (Comm. Spec's initials) by' Commodity Specialist J. O'Brien J. Sollazzo Dúraceio (Comm. Spec's Name) on the invoices covered by. the protests enumerated on the schedule attached hereto and made a part hereof, and assessed with duty at 15 per centum ad valorem under the provisions of paragraph 353, Tariff Act of 1930, as modified by T.D. 51802, consist of earphones, which, in fact, are not suitable for controlling,. distributing, modifying, producing, or rectifying electrical energy.
That said merchandise, in fact, consists of articles having as an essential feature an electrical element or device and are wholly or in chief value of metal.
That said earphones are not dedicated to use with radios.
It is claimed that the merchandise is dutiable at 13¾ per centum ad valorem, under paragraph 353, as modified by T.D. 52739, or at 12½ per centum ad valorem for merchandise entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse on or after July 1, 1962, under the provisions of paragraph 353 of said Act, as modified by T.D. 55615, as articles having as an essential feature an electrical element or device,' not specially provided for.
That the protests enumerated on the schedule attached hereto and made a part hereof be deemed submitted on this stipulation, the protests being limited to the items marked with the letter "A", as aforesaid, and abandoned 'as to all other items.
Accepting the foregoing stipulation of facts, we find and hold the items of merchandise marked "A" 'and initialed on the invoices ¡by the designated commodity specialists to be properly dutiable as articles having as an essential feature an electrical element or device, not specially provided for, at the rate of 13 % per centum ad valorem under paragraph 353, Tariff Act of 1930, as modified by' the Torquay Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 86 Treas. Dec. 121, T.D. 52739or at the rate of 12½ per centum ad valorem under paragraph 353, Tariff Act of 1930, as modified by Presidential proclamation to give effect to certain trade concessions negotiated at the 1960-61 tariff conference, 97 Treas. Dec. 157, T.D. 55615, depending upon date of entry.
The protests having been abandoned as to all other items of merchandise they are hereby dismissed. '
To the extent indicated the specified claim in these suits is sustained; in all other respects and as to all other merchandise all the claims are overruled.
Judgment will 'be entered accordingly.