Joanna Western Mills Co. v. United States

Ke, Judge:

The plaintiff, an American manufacturer of plastic window shades has brought this action to protest the classification of certain merchandise imported into the United States. The merchan*220dise, imported from Taiwan in 1967, consists of plastic window shades on wooden rollers. It is conceded that the plaintiff has complied with all of the preliminary statutory prerequisites of section 516(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, and is therefore properly before the court as an American manufacturer of an article of the same class or kind as the imported plastic window shades.

The plastic window…