Legal Opinion

United States v. Swain & Boggs Co.

Court of Customs and Patent Appeals

Decided November 17, 1923No. 2249PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtBarber, Judge

Paragraph 176 of the tariff act of 1913, among other things, pro- ’ vides for “manufactures of wood or bark, or of which wood or bark is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for,” at a duty rate of 15 per cent ad valorem.

Paragraph 647 of the same act gives free entry to “sawed boards, planks, deals, and other lumber, not further manufactured than ■ sawed, planed, and tongued and grooved. ”

The imported merchandise here is pieces of wood of the following dimensions: 1 by 2 inches, 56 inches long; 1 by 2 inches, 13 inches' long; 1 by 3 inches, 60 inches long; \ inch by 3…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Tide Water Oil Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
  2. United States v. DudleySupreme Court of the United States · 1899
  3. Fenton v. United StatesCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1911
  4. United States v. George Meier & Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1905
  5. Wanner v. United StatesCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1911

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. United States v. YoungCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1927
  2. Close v. United StatesUnited States Customs Court · 1951

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