F. W. Woolworth Co. v. United States

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States Customs Court denying a petition for remission of additional duties. The petition was filed pursuant to the provisions of section 489 of the Tariff Act of 1922, the pertinent part of which reads as follows:

Sec. 489. * * * Such additional duties shall not be construed to be penal and shall not be remitted nor payment thereof in any way avoided, except in the case of a manifest clerical error, upon the order of the Secretary of the Treasury, or in any case upon the finding of the Board of General Appraisers, *189upon a petition filed and…