Montgomery Ward & Co. v. United States

Maletz, Judge:

These four protests consolidated for trial involve the tariff status of merchandise invoiced as “Mother Hen Target Game Sets” that were imported from Japan and entered at the port of New York in 1965 and 1966. Each set includes a metal target board with supporting legs, four round plastic “eggs,” three rubber-tipped plastic darts, and a spring-activated gun to fire the darts. The target board is painted with a representation of a hen in a farmyard, with a plastic egg-shaped target in the middle of the hen.

The government classified the imported sets that were entered in 1966…