Legal Opinion
Erie Navigation Co. v. United States
United States Customs Court
Decided August 27, 1979No. C.D. 4820; Court 76-5-01081PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RE, Chief Judge:
Plaintiff, the owner and operator of the vessel M/V Day Peckinpaugh, brought this action to recover customs duties paid on repairs made to the vessel at a foreign port. The vessel, documented under the laws of the United States, was engaged in transporting bulk cement on Lake Ontario between the Canadian port of Picton, Ontario, and the American ports at Rome and Rochester, New York. In August, 1973, the vessel was drydocked at Port Weller, Ontario, Canada, where the repairs were made.
Upon return to a United States port, duties were assessed on the cost of the foreign repairs…
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