F. W. Woolworth Co. v. United States

Rao, Judge:

This appeal for reappraisement has been submitted for decision upon the following stipulation of counsel for the parties hereto:

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED AND AGREED, by and between counsel for the plaintiff and the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the United States, that the market value or the price, at the time of exportation to the United States of the earthenware articles covered by the above named Appeal to Reappraisement, at which such or similar merchandise was freely offered for sale to all purchasers in the principal markets of the country from which exported, in the usual wholesale quantity and in the ordinary course of trade, for exportation to *543the United States,-plus: the-vost-of all containers and coverings, of whatever nature and all .other costs, charges and expenses incident to placing the merchandise in condition, packed, ready for shipment to the United States, was in each instance the appraised value .less the amount added to meet advances made by the Appraiser in similar cases and that there is no foreign value.
, IT IS FURTHER STIPULATED AND AGREED, that this appeal to re-appraisement be submitted on this stipulation.

On the agreed facts I find the export value, as that value is defined' in section 402 (d) of the Tariff Act of 1930, to be the proper basis for the determination of the value of the earthenware articles here in-t volved, and that such value was in each instance the appraised value, less the amount added to meet advances made by the appraiser in similar cases.

Insofar as the appeal relates to all other merchandise it is hereby dismissed.

Judgment will be entered accordingly.