Cinder Products Corp. v. United States

RichardsoN, Judge:

The merchandise involved in this case consists of pumice stone, assessed with duty at 0.0425 cent per pound under paragraph 206 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as modified by the Sixth Protocol of Supplementary Concessions to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, T.D. 54108, as pumice stone, unmanufactured, valued at $15 or less per ton. It is claimed that duty should have been assessed upon the dry weight of the merchandise rather than on a weight which included moisture.

From the official papers and from the statements of counsel at a hearing held at Providence, R.I., on…