UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI v. UNITED STATES

Customs Appeal No. 77-1.

559 F.2d 23 (1977)

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, Appellant, v. The UNITED STATES (DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE), Appellee.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

August 4, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cesare Emiliani, Dept. of Geology, Miami, Fla., on behalf of appellant.

Barbara Allen Babcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., William Kanter, Michael F. Hertz, Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, RICH, BALDWIN, LANE and MILLER, Associate Judges.


BALDWIN, Judge.

This is an appeal brought by the University of Miami from a decision of the Secretary of Commerce denying a duty exemption for an imported mass spectrometer ordered by appellant. The denial was based on the finding that the most closely related domestically produced mass spectrometer is equivalent to the imported apparatus in scientific value for appellant's purposes.

The duty exemption is provided by the Educational, Scientific, and Cultural...

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