August 11, 1953 letter of July Mr. John V. Browning, Browning Arms Company, Boite Postale 22, Herstal-leg-Liege, Selgium. Dear Mr. Browning: in reply further about the to your procedure the dutiable value company intends to i now of the import to be followed 23rd, in automatic pistols from Belgium: understand that the inquiring establishing which your in question pistols (other than Caliber 6.35 mm) have never been offered for sale for home consumption in Belgium without a spare magazine and three dummy cartridges. That being so, it is all the more necessary that echroeder Preres to its ies as well as with those company will import wise, the appraiser ported pistols first (other would as defined importation probablybe as defined at their in in than our Caliber tariff States act, value", act. 6.35 mm) are similar act. In that case, their “eost of production" and later (other the as than Caliber defined the 6.35 mm.) importations in our tariff bd write the Accordingly, I recommend that Schroeder Freres now letters referred to in the third paragraph of my letter to you of July 16th, and thet it meil as many of its Belgian customers as possible category. offered as not s Otherthe im- home consump“foreign tariff at as your accessories. conclude that for sale for they have no pistols appraised inasmuch those might are offered hence, that of the our "United accessories, them without at St. Louis to the pistols which tion in Belgium and, value”, they now be offered for sale by Belgian trade without those accessor-~ After all for sale by referred to in types of pistols Schroeder Preres the third paragraph in to such letters to in each discount question have been its Belgian trade, of my letter to you