
    (C.D. 3785)
    Seedman International Corp. et al. v. United States
    United States Customs Court, Second Division
    (Decided April 16, 1969)
    
      Siegel, Mandell & Davidson for the plaintiffs.
    
      William D. Ruclcelshaus, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.
    Before Rao, Ford, and Newman, Judges
   Ford, Judge:

The suits listed in schedule “A”, attached hereto and made a part hereof, have been submitted on a written stipulation reading as follows:

IT IS STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between counsel for the plaintiffs and the Assistant Attorney General for the United States:

That the items marked “A”, and checked JS, JOB, and GL (Import Spec’s Initials) by Import Specialists J. Sollazzo, J. O’Brien, and Geo. H. Littlejohn (Import Spec’s Names) on the invoices covered by the protests enumerated on the schedule attached hereto and made a part hereof, and assessed with duty at 15 per centum ad valorem under the provisions of paragraph 353, Tariff Act of 1930, as modified by T.D. 51802, consist of earphones, which in fact, are not suitable for controlling, distributing, modifying, producing or rectifying electrical energy.

That said merchandise, in fact, consists of articles having as an essential feature an electrical element or device and are wholly or in chief value of metal.

That said earphones are not dedicated to use with radios.

It is claimed that the merchandise is dutiable at 13% per centum ad valorem under the provisions of paragraph 353 of said Act, as articles having as an essential feature an electrical element or device and not specially provided for, which rate has been further reduced to 12y2 Per centum ad valorem for entries made or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after July 1, 1962, by T.D. 55615.

That the protests be deemed submitted on this stipulation, the protests being limited to the items marked with the letter “A”, as aforesaid.

Accepting the foregoing stipulation of facts, we find and hold that the items of merchandise marked “A” and initialed on the invoices by the designated import specialists, are properly dutiable as articles having as an essential feature an electrical element or device and wholly or in chief value of metal, at the rate of 13% per centum ad valorem or 12% per centum ad valorem, depending upon date of entry, under the provisions of paragraph 353, Tariff Act of 1930, as modified by T.D. 52739, T.D. 55615 and T.D. 55816.

To the extent indicated the specified claim in these suits is sustained; in all other respects and as to all other merchandise all the claims are overruled.

Judgment will be entered accordingly.  