Organon, Inc. v. United States

Wilson, Judge:

The merchandise in the cases at bar, which have been consolidated for trial, invoiced as “Heparin Sodium USP XV,” was classified under paragraph 5 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as modified by the Torquay Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, T.D. 52739, at the rate of 12% per centum ad valorem, as a medicinal preparation, not specially provided for. Plaintiff claims the merchandise properly free of duty under paragraph 1669 of the said act as a crude drug, or, in the alternative, dutiable under paragraph 34 of the act, as modified by the General Agreement on…