J. E. Bernard & Co., Inc. v. The United States

LANE, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision and judgment of the United States Customs Court, Second Division, 295 F.Supp. 273, 62 Cust.Ct. C.D. 3684 (1969), overruling the protest of the importer to the classification of certain clock weights imported from Germany. We reverse that judgment.

Each clock weight, as revealed by a representative sample in evidence as plaintiff’s exhibit 1, is in the shape of a pine cone approximately seven and one-half inches long with a wire loop or hook extending from the top. According to the sole witness, an experienced clock workman called by the importer,…