Dell Products LP v. United States

642 F.3d 1055 (2011)

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Dell Products LP v. United States

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
642 F.3d 1055 (2011)

Facts

Dell Products LP (Dell) (plaintiff) imported laptop computers and add-on products such as secondary batteries. The laptop computers were imported together with a primary battery and charging cable, and the secondary batteries were imported separately. United States Customs and Border Protection (customs) (defendant) classified the secondary batteries as other storage batteries under subheading 8507.80.80 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS), which subjected imports to a 3.4 percent duty. Dell challenged the classification, arguing that because it sold its secondary batteries as sets with its laptop computers, the secondary batteries must be classified as portable digital automatic data-processing machines under subheading 8471.30.00, a duty-free classification. The Court of International Trade held that the secondary batteries were not part of a set as set out in General Rule of Interpretation (GRI) 3(b), but rather an add-on product, and thus properly classified under subheading 8507.80.80. Dell appealed.

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Issue

Holding and Reasoning (Bryson, J.)

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