Link-Belt Co. v. United States

Donlon, Judge:

A case of machine parts, for assembly into what is described as mining machinery, was imported at the port of San Francisco on September 12, 1960, from West Germany. The importation was entered under section 308, Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, *503which provides for duty free entry, under bond, for “samples * * * solely for use in taking orders for merchandise, or for examination with a view to reproduction.” A bond was filed, the condition being that if the imported articles were not timely exported there would be paid liquidated damages of one and one-quarter times the regular…