J. Milton Hagy Waste Works v. United States

Kincheloe, Judge:

At the time of trial the suits listed in schedule A, attached hereto and made a part hereof, were consolidated for trial upon motion of counsel for plaintiff.

The said suits are suits against the United States, arising at the port of Philadelphia, for the refund of certain customs duties alleged to have been improperly exacted on certain importations of old cotton rags from Japan, during the period between March 1933 and June 1936. Duty was levied thereon at the rate of 3 cents per pound under the provisions of paragraph 922 of the Tariff Act of 1930, which reads as follows:

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