Lafayette Electronics Mfg. Corp. v. United States

Nichols, Judge:

The merchandise involved in this case consists of portable transistor radios in leather cases imported from Japan and entered at the port of New York on December 11, 1959.1 The radios were assessed with duty at 12% per centum ad valorem under paragraph 353 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as modified by the Torquay Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, T.D. 52739, as radios wholly or in chief value of metal. The cases were assessed at 20 per centum ad valorem under paragraph 1531 of said tariff act, as modified by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, T.D.…