NORCAL/CROSETTI FOODS v. U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE

Court No. 89-09-00495.

758 F.Supp. 729 (1991)

NORCAL/CROSETTI FOODS, INC., Paterson Frozen Foods, Inc. and Richard A. Shaw, Inc., each California corporations, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE, United States Department of the Treasury, Honorable Nicholas Brady, Secretary of the Treasury, John Durant, Director of the Commercial Rulings Division, United States Customs Service, and Harvey B. Fox, Director of the Office of Regulations and Rulings of the United States Customs Service, Defendants, Covemex, S.A. de C.V., Mar Bran, S. de R.L., Expohort, S.A. de C.V., Vegetales Congelados, S. de P.R., and Congelados Don Jose, S.A. de C.V., Amici Curiae.

United States Court of International Trade.

February 27, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Titchell, Maltzman, Mark, Bass, Ohleyer & Mishel, Richard D. Maltzman, Robert Ted Parker, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Joseph I. Liebman, Atty. in Charge, Intern. Trade Field Office, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Susan Burnett Mansfield, U.S. Customs Service, (Ruth Hansell, of counsel), for defendants.

Brownstein, Zeidman, and Schomer, Irwin Altschuler, Donald S. Stein, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae.


OPINION

MUSGRAVE, Judge.

Plaintiffs move for summary judgment to compel defendant United States Customs Service to withdraw a Ruling Letter endorsing the present practice of marking imported frozen produce with country of origin on the rear panel of packages, and to require that such marking be placed on the front panel of packages in type size comparable to the product description and/or in a contrasting color. Plaintiffs also request that Customs be ordered...

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