Amersham Corporation v. The United States

EDWARD S. SMITH, Circuit Judge.

In this customs classification case appellant, Amersham Corporation (Amersham), appeals from a judgment of the United States Court of International Trade rejecting the United States Customs Service’s initial classification of certain radioactive foil disks used in smoke detectors, rejecting Amersham’s preferred classification of the product, but accepting Amersham’s alternative classification. We affirm.

Issue

The sole issue before this court is whether certain imported radioactive foil disks (disks) are properly classified, as Amersham contends, under Tariff…