
    (C.D. 3149)
    The Rembar Co., Inc. v. United States
    United States Customs Court, Second Division
    (Decided October 9, 1967)
    
      John D. Rode for the plaintiff.
    
      Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.
    Before Rao and Fobd, Judges
   Ford, Judge:

Tlie above cases have been submitted on a written stipulation reading as follows:

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED by and between coimsel for the plaintiff and the Assistant Attorney General for the United States that the merchandise marked “A” and checked with his initials MX JS by Commodity Specialist M. Krebs Joseph Sollazzo covered by the protests enumerated above, assessed with duty at the rate of 13½ or 12 per centum ad valorem under the provisions of Paragraph 353 as modified by the President’s Proclamation of April 30, 1862, 97 Treas. Dec. 157, T.D. 55615, supplemented by T.D. 55649 consists of integral, necessary, dedicated components of electrical X-ray apparatus or instruments (other than laboratory) in chief value of metal, which are not X-ray tubes or parts of X-ray tubes; that the rate of duty for electrical X-ray apparatus or instruments and parts thereof other than X-ray tubes and parts of X-ray tubes under the provisions of Paragraph 353 of the Tariff Act of 1930 as modified by the President’s Proclamation of April 30, 1962, supra, is 6½ per cen-tum for such merchandise entered or withdrawn for consumption on and after July 1, 1962, and 5½ per centum for such merchandise entered or withdrawn for consumption on and after July 1, 1963.

IT IS FURTHER STIPULATED AND AGREED that the protests be submitted on the basis of 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 the items of merchandise, marked “A” and initialed on the invoices by the designated commodity specialists, to be properly dutiable as electrical X-ray apparatus or instruments and parts thereof, other than X-ray tubes and parts of X-ray tubes, under the provisions of paragraph 353, Tariff Act of 1930, as modified by the President’s proclamation of April 30, 1962, 97 Treas. Dec. 157, T,D. 55615, and T.D. 55649 as follows:

1. At the rate of 6½ per centum ad valorem when entered for consumption or withdrawn from the warehouse on and after July 1,1962, or

2. At the rate of 5½ per centum ad valorem when entered for consumption or withdrawn from the warehouse on and after July 1,1963.

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.  