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Astra IIIB sextant importer vs. U.S. government
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2002 Sep 30, 14:53 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2002 Sep 30, 14:53 -0700
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.
