Converse Rubber Co. v. United States

Ford, Judge:

This case is a rehearing, having originally been decided in 65 Cust. Ct. 453, C.D. 4121 (1970), and involves a multiple station rotary table injection molding machine which was classified under the provisions of item 678.35, Tariff Schedules of the United States, as machines used for molding or otherwise forming rubber or plastics articles and parts and assessed with duty at 11.5 per centum ad valorem. It is contended that said machine is entitled to entry free of duty under the provisions for shoe machinery and parts as provided for in item 678.10.

In our original opinion we made…