Legal Opinion
Nidec Corporation v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided October 18, 1995No. 95-1010PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.
The question is whether the Customs Service properly classified the appellant Nidec Corporation’s (Nidec) imported merchandise as electric motors rather than, as Nidec contends it should have done, as parts of electronic data processing machinery. The Court of International Trade upheld Customs’ classification. We affirm.
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Nidec’s imports are electric rotary motors that include a precision spindle and other components. They are custom designed to be used to rotate the disks in computer hard disk drives in a particular company’s computer. Although Nidec’s products…
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