Court Opinion

ID: 8081849
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 14:00:58.083093+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:38:24.220447
License: Public Domain

Kincheloe, Judge:
These appeals to reappraisement listed in schedule A attached to my decision herein and made a part hereof, all of which were consolidated for the purposes of trial by consent of the parties, involve the proper dutiable value of certain machine-glazed Kraft paper imported from Sweden.
At the trial, it was stipulated between counsel for the respective parties in substance as follows:
(1) That the paper covered by the instant appeals to reappraisement is the same in all material respects as that which was the subject of the decision in the case of Arkell Safety Bag Co. v. United States, Reap. Dec. 4670.
(2) That the record in said case may be incorporated herein.
(3) That there is no foreign value for the paper in question.
Plaintiffs introduced the testimony of one George Fredson Baine, a salesman of the Borregaard Co., Incorporated, who had appeared as a witness on behalf of the plaintiff in the Arkell Safety Bag Co. case, supra. Said witness testified that he personally negotiated all of the sales to American customers of the paper involved in the appeals in question; that said sales were negotiated in the same manner as those concerning which the witness testified in the Arkell Safety Bag Co. case, supra; that the invoice prices for the instant merchandise are the prices actually paid therefor; that he prepared a schedule, which schedule was offered in evidence and admitted as Exhibit 1 herein, setting forth the freely offered prices of said merchandise at the times of exportation thereof; that the said invoice prices and freely offered prices were the c. i. f. prices, ports of entry, subject to a 2 per centum cash discount, and included amounts for inland freight, ocean freight, dock dues, and wharfage, and insurance premium.
In the Arkell Safety Bag Co. case, supra, the record in which case has been incorporated herein, it was found that the foreign market for machine-glazed Kraft paper, such as or similar to that involved therein, was a controlled market subject to conditions and restrictions fixed by a cartel agreement between wholesalers and dealers; that there was no foreign-market value, within the meaning of such value as defined in section 402 (c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, for such or similar merchandise; that the proper basis of appraisement for said merchandise was export value, within the judicial interpretation of said value for tariff purposes; that all of the sales of said paper were negotiated to American importers without any restriction or condition upon the American purchaser, either as to use or quantity; and that *462tbe price for said merchandise was the same regardless of the quantity-purchased.
On the basis of the entire record before me, I find the following facts:
(1) That the merchandise in question consists of machine-glazed Kraft paper imported from Sweden.
(2) That the foreign market, at the times of exportation of the instant merchandise, for such or similar merchandise was a controlled market.
(3). That there was no foreign-market value, as such value is rle.fiup.rl in section 402 (c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, for the instant merchandise at the times of exportation thereof.
(4) That the proper basis of appraisement for said merchandise is export value, as such value is defined in section 402 (d) of said act and as legally interpreted in the Arkell Safety Bag Co. case, supra.
(5) That such dutiable export values of said merchandise are the freely offered prices set forth on schedule B, hereto attached and made a part hereof, less 2 per centum cash discount, inland freight, ocean freight, dock dues-and wharfage, and insurance premium, as invoiced.
I hold as matter of law that the correct dutiable values of the instant merchandise are the export values as set forth'in fact (5). Judgment will be rendered accordingly.

Schedule B

Arkell Safety Bag Co.

Reappraisement # Entry # Net-weight of paper Freely offered price Merchandise
114485-A 851916 as invoiced, $3.10/100 lbs. Rolls brown
114499-A 701448 as invoiced, $3.90/100 lbs. Rolls blue
115000-A 703556 as invoiced. $3.10/100 lbs. Rolls brown
115299-A 725475 16558 lbs. $3.90/100 lbs. Rolls blue
12072 lbs. $3.10/100 lbs. Rolls brown
115446-A 732154 12280 lbs. $3.90/100 lbs. Rolls blue
80021 lbs. $3.10/100 lbs. Rolls brown
115713-A 739566 63865 lbs. $3.10/100 lbs. Rolls brown
18736 lbs. $3.90/100 lbs. Rolls blue
115860-A 743183 as invoiced. $3.10/100 lbs. Rolls brown
118202-A 789658 89085 lbs. $3.45/100 lbs. Rolls brown
8258 lbs. $4.25/100 lbs. Rolls blue
118203-A 855292 as invoiced, $3.10/100 lbs. Rolls brown
118292-A 837255 as invoiced, $3.55/100 lbs. Rolls brown
119136-A 720288 as invoiced, $3.10/100 lbs. Rolls brown
119762-A 863073 as invoiced, $4.20/100 lbs. Rolls brown
123058-A 855335 as invoiced. $3.90/100 lbs. Rolls blue
125281-A 806514 11063 lbs. $3.55/100 lbs. Rolls brown
84901 lbs. $3.55/100 lbs. Rolls brown
28966 lbs. $4.35/100 lbs. Rolls blue

Stone & Bonner Co. (The Borregaard Co.)

127111-A 17979 21104 lbs. $4.85/100 lbs. Rolls gray
11125 lbs. $4.90/100 lbs. Rolls green

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Wm. J. Jones & Co.

Reappraisment if Entry § Net weight af paper Freely offered price Merchandise

128780-A C1316 1285 lbs. 83.30/100 lbs. Rolls green
8726 lbs. $3.40/100 lbs. Sheets green
11740 lbs. $3.20/100 lbs. Sheets brown
2802 lbs. $3.10/100 lbs. Rolls brown
11271 lbs. $3.20/100 lbs. Sheets brown
4379 lbs. $3.10/100 lbs. Rolls brown
128790-A 1039 10438 lbs. $3.20/100 lbs. Sheets brown
12132 lbs. $3.20/100 lbs. Sheets brown
130164^A C481 8958 lbs. $3.40/100 lbs. Sheets green
6081 lbs. $3.10/100 lbs. Rolls gray
19665 lbs. $3.20/100 lbs. Sheets gray
15813 lbs. $3.20/100 lbs. Sheets brown
23614 lbs. $3.40/100 lbs. Sheets green
15905 lbs. $3.20/100 lbs. Sheets brown

Austin & Company (Old Dominion Paper Co.)

134248-A 380 14570 lbs. $3.50/100 lbs. Rolls green
9010 lbs. $3.30/100 lbs. Rolls brown
4929 lbs. $3.40/100 lbs. Sheets brown