General Dyestuff Corp. v. United States

This is an appeal by General Dyestuff Corp. from a judgment of the United States Customs Court holding certain merchandise, consisting of a coal-tar product, or color, named “alizarine direct blue RXO,” to have been properly assessed for duty by the collector of customs at 7 cents per pound and 45 per centum ad valorem under the provisions of paragraph 28 of the Tariff Act of 1922, “the duty being on two times the weight of the merchandise in aoccrdance with the standard proclaimed in T. D. 40192.”

The protest of the importer is leveled against the assessment of the specific duty on two times…