AVECIA, INC. v. U.S.

Slip Op. 06-184. Court No. 05-00183.

469 F.Supp.2d 1269 (2006)

AVECIA, INC., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States Court of International Trade.

December 19, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Buchanan Ingersoll PC (Steven R. Bizar, Jill W. Rogers), Philadelphia, PA, Crowell & Moring LLP (Alexander Schaefer), Washington, DC, for Plaintiff.

Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Barbara S. Williams, Attorney in Charge, International Trade Field Office, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice (Saul Davis); Office of Assistant Chief Counsel, International Trade Litigation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (Beth C. Brotman), of counsel, for the defendant.


OPINION

MUSGRAVE, Judge.

Following a bench trial on whether imported ink-jet ink concentrates consisting of chromophores in deionized water should be classified for customs duty purposes under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States ("HTSUS") as "synthetic organic coloring material," specifically "dyes," of heading 3204, or "printing inks" of heading 3215, the Court concludes that the products are correctly classifiable under heading 3215.

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