TROPICANA PRODUCTS, INC. v. U.S.

Court No. 87-10-00984.

789 F.Supp. 1154 (1992)

TROPICANA PRODUCTS, INC., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant.

United States Court of, International Trade.

March 16, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baker & McKenzie, William D. Outman, II, Thomas Peele and Teresa A. Otruba, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Joseph I. Liebman, New York City, Atty. in Charge, Intern. Trade Field Office, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, and Steven Berke, U.S. Customs Service, of counsel, for defendant.

Barnes, Richardson & Colburn, Matthew T. McGrath and Peter A. Martin, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Florida Citrus Mutual.


AMENDED OPINION, FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

NEWMAN, Senior District Judge:

INTRODUCTION

Presented for determination is the dutiable status of frozen concentrated orange juice for manufacturing ("manufacturing concentrate") imported from Brazil in 1981 by Tropicana Products, Inc. ("Tropicana") and processed in its "Class 8" Customs bonded warehouse.

Tropicana, an importer and domestic producer of orange juice and other citrus...

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