RAININ INSTRUMENT CO., INC. v. U.S.

SLIP OP. 03-139, Court No. 00-11-0514.

288 F.Supp.2d 1360 (2003)

RAININ INSTRUMENT CO., INC., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant.

United States Court of International Trade.

October 24, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grunfeld, Desiderio, Lebowitz, Silverman & Klestadt LLP, New York City (Steven P. Florsheim), for Plaintiff.

Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General; Barbara S. Williams, Assistant Branch Director, International Trade Field Office, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice (Arthur J. Gribbin); Michael W. Heydrich, Office of the Assistant Chief Counsel, International Trade Litigation, Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, for Defendant, of counsel.


OPINION

RIDGWAY, Judge.

At issue in this case is the proper tariff classification of certain adjustable mechanical pipettes—known as "Pipetman" pipettes —which were imported from France through the port of Boston in 1999 by Plaintiff Rainin Instrument Co., Inc. ("Rainin"). Rainin challenges the decision of the United States Customs Service ("Customs")1 denying its protest and classifying the pipettes as "[m]achines...

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