North Coast Importing Co. v. United States

This is an appeal by several importers from two judgments of the United States Customs Court, the first of which overruled certain protests filed with the Collector of Customs at the port of Seattle, insofar as they affected the merchandise here involved, and the second of which judgments overruled protests respecting the same kind of merchandise filed with the Collector of Customs at the port of San Francisco. The cases were consolidated for the purposes of appeal.

The involved merchandise bears the trade names of “ajinomoto” and “ve-tsin,” the first being of Japanese, and the second of…