Mitsui Foods, Inc. v. The United States

EDWARD S. SMITH, Circuit Judge.

In this classification case, the United States Court of International Trade held that certain canned tuna from Japan, imported into the Customs territory of the United States by Mitsui Foods, Inc. (Mit-sui), was properly classified by the United States Customs Service (Customs) as “[t]una * * * [o]ther,” under item 112.34, Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS). 1 We affirm.

Issues

Three issues are presented on appeal: First, whether the Court of International Trade erred, as a matter of law, by holding that the phrase “United States pack of canned tuna * *…