Maher-App & Co. v. The United States

ALMOND, Judge.

Maher-App & Co., et al., importers, appeal from the decision and judgment of the United States Customs Court1 overruling the eight consolidated protests against classification of the imported merchandise by the Collector of Customs for the Port of New Orleans,

*923Louisiana. Involved in the protest are five and eight pound balls- of henequen or sisal twine, described on the invoices as “binder twine,” and assessed with duty at the rate of 15 per centum ad valorem under the provisions for cords and twines in paragraph 1005(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as modified by the General…