Peterson Electro Musical Products v. United States

Carman, Judge:

The issue in this case is whether certain imported merchandise, a chromatic tuning instrument known as a “Strobo Tuner,” was properly classified under item 713.17 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS), providing for “stroboscopes of all kinds.”

The subject merchandise, entered at the port of Chicago, Illinois, in 1981, and invoiced as a “chromatic tuning stroboscope,” is an *294electronic device that, according to its operations manual, “employs the stroboscopic principle in its measurement of sound frequencies, by which the frequency of the sound introduced is to be…