Hudson Shipping Co. v. United States

Maletz, Judge:

The problem in this consolidated action is to determine the proper tariff classification of three types of ship models in assembled form and of three types of construction kits or sets containing prefabricated units for the assembly of ship models. The imported ship models were represented to be models of three famous *28sailing vessels, i.e., (1) the Juan Sebastian Elcano,'a schooner which is presently used by the Spanish Navy as a training vessel; '(2) the clipper ship Great Republic which was built in 1835 and was the largest sailing ship ever built in the United States; and (3)…