Cronite Co. v. United States

Lawrence, Judge:

This cause of action arose pursuant to the provisions of section 516 (b) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U. S. C. § 1516 (b)), as amended by the Customs Administrative Act of 1938 (52 Stat. 1077) and Public Law 773, 80th Congress (62 Stat. 869), which granted to manufacturers, producers, or wholesalers the privilege of challenging by protest the classification of and the rate of duty imposed upon imported merchandise of a class or kind “manufactured, produced, or sold at wholesale by him.”

Two protests were filed by plaintiff against the liquidations by the collector of customs…