Eastalco Aluminum Company v. The United States

CLEVENGER, Circuit Judge.

Eastalco Aluminum Company (“Eastal-co”) appeals the judgment of the U.S. Court of International Trade holding that certain carbon blocks imported in 1981 “must be classified under item 517.91 as articles of carbon or graphite, a general category” within the Tariff Schedules of the United States (1981) (“TSUS”). Eastalco Aluminum Co. v. United States, 726 P.Supp. 1342, 1343 (Ct.Int’l Trade 1989). We affirm.

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The articles at issue are blocks used to line an aluminum reduction cell that produces aluminum metal by electrolysis of fused aluminum oxide salts contained in…