J. E. BERNARD & CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 5341.

420 F.2d 1403 (1970)

J. E. BERNARD & CO., Inc., Appellant, v. The UNITED STATES, Appellee.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

February 19, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barnes, Richardson & Colburn, New York City, attorneys of record, for appellant. Earl R. Lidstrom, Rufus E. Jarman, Jr., New York City, of counsel.

William D. Ruckelshaus, Asst. Atty. Gen., Andrew P. Vance, Chief, Customs Section, Peter Jay Baskin, New York City, for the United States.

Before RICH, Acting Chief Judge, ALMOND, BALDWIN and LANE, Judges, and McMANUS, Chief Judge, Northern District of Iowa, sitting by designation.


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...

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