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Astra IIIB sextant importer vs. U.S. government

Subject: Astra IIIB sextant importer vs. U.S. government
From: Paul Hirose (paulhirose@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 17:53:00 EDT

U.S. Customs Service said Astra IIIB sextants were subject to duties
as "optical navigational instruments". The importer, Celestaire,
disagreed with that classification and took the fight to the U.S.
Court of Appeals. Here's the 1997 ruling:

http://www.law.emory.edu/fedcircuit/july97/97-1005.html

I saw this while searching the Web for something else.



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