United States v. John A. Conkey Co.

Keefe, Judge:

These appeals for review involve five reappraise-ments covering importations of strike-on-box matches imported from Finland and Latvia and entered at Boston under the provisions of the Tariff Act of 1922. The appraiser advanced the value and made a finding of dumping duty in conformity with T. D. 44716 and T. D. 44719. The validity of the appraisements was attacked in the court below upon the grounds that the collector failed to designate and the appraiser failed to examine sufficient packages as required by section 499 of the Tariff Act of 1922.

The trial court held that the…