Aluminum Co. of America v. United States

Landis, Judge:

The sole issue in this protest is whether fluorspar, a mineral substance of sorts, contained over or, not over, 97 percent by weight of calcium fluoride when imported from Spain in shipments entered at Point Comfort, Texas, on September 6, 1967 and December 26,1967.

The record attests that looking to classification and duty assessment, the importer had samples of the fluorspar taken from both shipments. Those samples, properly prepared, were subdivided into lots (identified with each shipment), some of which were sent to customs for laboratory analysis of the calcium fluoride…