Mead Corp. v. United States

OPINION and ORDER

WATSON, Senior Judge.

This action involves the tariff classification of imported loose-leaf books containing calendars, room for daily notes, telephone numbers, addresses and notepads. This sort of product originated in England and is probably best known under the trademark of Filofax. 1

The importations were classified as bound diaries under Subheading 4820.10.20 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedules of the United States (“HTSUS”). That provision, in context, reads as follows:

4820 Registers, account books, notebooks, order books, receipt books, letter pads, memorandum pads,…