SIEMENS AMERICA, INC. v. UNITED STATES

C.D. 4856; Consolidated Court No. 72-5-01093.

496 F.Supp. 266 (1980)

SIEMENS AMERICA, INC., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant.

United States Customs Court.

May 13, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Freeman, Meade, Wasserman & Schneider, New York City (Louis Schneider and Kenneth Nathan Wolf, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Alice Daniel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Joseph I. Liebman, Atty. in Charge, Field Office for Customs Litigation, and Madeline B. Kuflik, New York City, trial attorney, for defendant.


NEWMAN, Judge:

In these consolidated cases, plaintiff challenges the classification by Customs of certain gas tube surge voltage protectors ("SVPs") exported from West Germany on various dates from 1969 to 1978, and entered at the port of New York.

The merchandise in issue was classified under the provision in item 685.90 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS) for "other electrical apparatus * * for the protection of electrical circuits" and assessed...

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