MEAD CORP. v. U.S.

No. 98-1569.

185 F.3d 1304 (1999)

THE MEAD CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

July 28, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney H. Kuflick, Lamb & Lerch, of New York, New York, argued for plaintiff-appellant.

Amy M. Rubin, Attorney, Civil Division, International Trade Field Office, Department of Justice, of New York, New York, argued for defendant-appellee. With her on the brief were David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, and David M. Cohen, Director, Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch Department of Justice, of Washington, DC; Joseph I. Liebman, Attorney in Charge, International Trade Field Office; and William Kanter, and Bruce G. Forrest, Attorneys, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice, of Washington, DC. Of counsel on the brief were Allan L. Martin, Associate Chief Counsel, and Lou Brenner, Attorney, U.S. Customs Service, of Washington, DC; and Karen P. Binder, Assistant Chief Counsel, and Edward N. Maurer, Attorney, U.S. Customs Service, of New York, New York.

Terence P. Stewart, Stewart and Stewart, of Washington, DC; David Serko, Serko & Simon, LLP, of New York, New York; Richard M. Belanger, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, LLP, of Washington, DC; and Peter Jay Baskin, Sharretts, Paley, Carter & Blauvelt, P.C., of New York, New York, for amicus curiae Customs and International Trade Bar Association.

Before NEWMAN, RADER, and SCHALL, Circuit Judges.


RADER, Circuit Judge.

On summary judgment, the Court of International Trade affirmed the United States Customs Service's classification of day planners imported by The Mead Corporation as bound diaries. Because the terms within subheading 4820.10.20 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedules of the United States (HTSUS), namely "diaries" and "bound," do not encompass the imported articles, this court reverses.

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At issue are five models of Mead's day planners...

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