Finn Bros. v. United States

Watson, Judge:

In these jointly tried actions plaintiffs oppose the classification of their imported carved ivory flowers as jewelry or parts thereof 1 and seek classification of them as semiprecious stones.2 Plaintiffs argue that these importations fall within the common meaning, or alternatively, the commercial moaning, of the term semiprecious stones. The record in Finn Bros., Inc. v. United States, 59 CCPA 72, C.A.D. 1042, 454 F. 2d 1404 (1972), aff’g 65 Cust. Ct. 252, C.D. 4085 (1970), was incorporated herein.

*142As a preliminary matter, I am of the opinion plaintiffs have successfully proved…