Florsheim Shoe Company, Div. Of Interco, Inc. v. The United States

DAVIS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Court of International Trade (CIT) dismissing, on the defendant’s motion, plaintiff Florsheim Shoe Company’s (Florsheim’s) complaint against the United States (the Government). In that complaint, Florsheim challenged the United States Customs Service’s denial of Florsheim’s protests against the agency’s classification of imported Indian buffalo leather and goat and kid leather, not fancy, as dutiable merchandise. The CIT properly decided that-Florsheim was attacking the basis for Cus toms’ denial of the protests — certain Executive…