
    Arthur H. Lee & Sons, Inc., et al. v. United States
    No. 6525.
    Entry No. 740681, etc.
    Invoices dated Liverpool, England, January 21, 1946, etc.
    Certified January 21, 1946, etc.
    Entered at New York, N. Y., February 26, 1946, etc.
    (Decided November 18, 1946)
    
      John R. Rafter for the plaintiffs.
    
      Paul P. Rao, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.
   Cole, Judge

(Abstract): These appeals for reappraisement of various items of merchandise concern the so-called British purchase tax, described in the law of the United Kingdom entitled, “Finance (No. 2) Act 1940 3 & 4 Geo. 6 Ch. 48.” The said tax was held not to be an item to be included in foreign value as defined in section 402 (e) of the Tariff Act of 1930 as amended by the Customs Administrative Act of 1938 (19 U. S. C. 1940 ed. § 1402 (e)). United States v. Wm. S. Pitcairn Corp., 33 C. C. P. A. 183, C. A. D. 334.

The cited case has been incorporated herein by consent of the parties who further agree on a set of facts, embodied in a written stipulation submitting the present cases, showing export value, section 402 (d) of the Tariff Act of 1930, to be the proper basis for appraisement of the instant merchandise, and that such statutory values are the appraised values of the articles in question, less additions made by the importers on entry because of advances in similar cases.  