The United States v. Consolidated International Equipment & Supply Co.

The single determinative issue in this appeal from the decision and judgment of the United States Customs Court, Second Division, 1 is whether that court was correct in determining that certain machines designated as “Multineg” or “step and repeat” machines were properly classifiable under the provision for “all typesetting machines” in ¶1643 of the Tariff Act of 1930.

It is the primary contention of appellant that the common definition of the term “typesetting machine” and the legislative history behind ([1643, supra, require that the term be interpreted to include only those machines which…