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10 Cust. Ct. 562

Sears v. United States

United States Customs Court

Decided February 18, 1943

United States Customs Court · decided 1943-02-18

Decided 1943-02-18

Cole, Judge:

¶1This appeal to reappraisement brings for determination the proper dutiable values of certain Christmas-tree ornaments exported from Sonneberg, Germany, and imported at the port of New York.

¶2The case was submitted for decision on February 11, 1943, on a stipulation wherein the parties agree that—

the glass Christmas tree ornaments on the invoice covered by the reappraisement appeal exported from Germany in November, 1937, and the per se unit invoice price therefor and the market conditions with respect thereto, are the same in all material respects as the glass Christmas tree ornaments, the per se unit invoice price therefor and the market conditions with respect thereto, in the case of F. W. Woolworth Co. et al. v. United States, R. D. 5094,
the record in said R. D. 5094 may be and hereby is incorporated as a part of the record herein.

¶3In the Woolworth case, supra, the question before the court was whether the cash prices of people in the Sonneberg-Lauscha district of Germany manufacturing Christmas-tree ornaments, cocktail sticks, and other glass novelties in their homes, represented the proper dutiable value of the merchandise; or whether higher prices charged by commissionaires or dealers was the proper basis for appraisement. The court found that the manufacturers’ prices met all of the requirements of statutory value, as defined in section 402 (c) and (d) of the Tariff Act of 1930, and accordingly held such values to be the proper ones for tariff purposes.

¶4Acquiescing in the above agreement, the court finds that there existed for the Christmas-tree ornaments in. question at the time of exportation thereof a foreign value and an export value, as they are defined in section 402, and accordingly holds that such dutiable values are the per se unit invoice prices, plus, when not included in such per se unit invoice prices, the costs of cases and packing and the cost of all containers and coverings of whatever nature, and all other costs, charges, and expenses incident to placing the merchandise in condition, packed ready for shipment to the United States, as invoiced, whenever reported as dutiable by the appraiser.

¶5The appeal, having been abandoned as to all other merchandise, is hereby dismissed so far as it relates thereto.

¶6Judgment will be rendered accordingly.

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