Package Machinery Co. v. United States

LawRence, Judge:

This is a case of first impression. Both at the trial and in the briefs, the case has been fully and ably presented by counsel for the parties.

The plaintiff is engaged primarily in the manufacture of many different types of packaging and wrapping machines. Among them is one known as FA-2, which is used for wrapping boxes containing candy.

A few years ago the demand for machines of this type was so great that it became economically expedient to import from Canada SI machines of the FA-2 type, which were made in accordance with plaintiff’s specifications. Those 31 machines, which…