Texas Instruments, Inc. v. United States

Rich, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the United States Court of International Trade (court below) granting the Government’s motion for summary judgment and denying Texas Instrument’s (TI) cross-motion for summary judgment, holding that TI’s importation was not entitled to duty-free entry pursuant to the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), 19 U.S.C. 2461, et seq., 520 F. Supp. 1216, 2 CIT 36, (1981). We reverse.

Background

The imported goods are electronic camera parts, called “cue modules,” and consist of a flexible circuit board having attached thereto three integrated circuits…