Legal Opinion
The Mead Corporation v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided July 28, 1999No. 98-1569PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RADER, Circuit Judge.
On summary judgment, the Court of International Trade affirmed the United States Customs Service’s classification of day planners imported by The Mead Corporation as bound diaries. Because the terms within subheading 4820.10.20 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedules of the United States (HTSUS), namely “diaries” and “bound,” do not encompass the imported articles, this court reverses.
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At issue are five models of Mead’s day planners (model nos. 47192, 47062, 47124, 47104, and 47102). Stylistically, the day planners differ from each other based on their size (ranging from 7 x 4…
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