S. J. Charia & Co. v. United States

LAWRENCE, Judge.

This cause of action challenges the decision of the collector of customs at the port of New Orleans in excluding from entry certain cigar lighters, which the plaintiff endeavored to import into the United States.

The act of exclusion was based upon the authority of an order of the President, dated March 17, 1934, 65 Treas. Dec. 659, T.D. 47001, issued in accordance with the provisions of .section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, 19 U.S.C.A. § 1337, directing the Secretary of the Treasury, through the proper officers, to refuse entry of certain cigar lighters.

The statutes and the…