Altieri v. United States

Rao, Chief Judge:

The subject merchandise consists of 18 copper plates, circular in form, exported from England, consigned to the *313plaintiff herein for account of the Abarca Warehouses Corp., Santurce, Puerto Rico. Involved are three separate importations of identical merchandise which are covered by the three protests enumerated above.

On arrival at Puerto Rico, the customs officials classified said merchandise as articles or wares, not specially provided for, whether partly or wholly manufactured, composed wholly or in chief value of copper, in paragraph 391 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as…