Ace Importing Co. v. United States

Nao, Chief Judge: The merchandise covered by the protests ©numerated in the schedule of protests, attached to this decision and made a part hereof, consists of battery-operated lanterns which were assessed with duty at the rate of 20 per centum ad valorem, or at the rate of 19 per centum ad valorem, or at the rate of 18 per centum ad valorem, or at the rate of 17 per centum ad valorem, pursuant to the provision in paragraph 339 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as modified by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 82 Treas. Dec. 305, T.D. 51802, or by the Torquay Protocol to said General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 86 Treas. Dec. 121, T.D. 52739, or by the Sixth Protocol of Supplementary Concessions to said General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 91 Treas. Dec. 150, T.D. 54108, for household utensils, not specially provided for, wholly or in chief value of base metal. It is claimed in said protests that the merchandise in issue consists of articles having as an essential feature an electrical element or device within the purview of paragraph 353 of said act, as modified by said Torquay protocol, which are dutiable at the rate of 13% per centum ad valorem. [356] These protests have been, submitted for decision upon a written stipulation of counsel for the respective parties hereto to the effect that said merchandise, assessed as above and represented by the invoice items marked “A” and checked JB, by Examiner Jacob Bistreich, consists of battery-operated lanterns which contain as an essential feature an electrical element or device, which are not illuminating or lighting fixtures, or lamps, and which do not contain any electrical heating elements as constituent parts. Upon the agreed facts, we hold the merchandise here in issue, identified by invoice items marked and checked as aforesaid, to be dutiable at the rate of 13% per centum ad valorem pursuant to the provision in paragraph 353 of said tariff act, as modified by said Torquay protocol, for articles having as an essential feature an electrical element or device. The claim in the protests to that effect is sustained. All other claims are, however, overruled. Judgment will be entered accordingly.