Texas Instruments Inc. v. United States

Newman, Judge:

The narrow and technical issue presented by this action affects one of the Government’s most important international trade programs — the Generalized System of Preferences (“GSP”), 19 U.S.C. §2461, et seg. See also General Headnote 3(c), Tariff Schedules of the United States (“TSUS”). We are called upon in this case to determine whether plaintiff’s importation was entitled to duty-free entry under the GSP statute.

Plaintiff imported from Taiwan certain electronic components for cameras called “cue modules”, which were entered at the port of Honolulu, Hawaii in May 1977. The…