E. Taranger, Inc. v. United States

RichaRdson, Judge:

This action involves three protests filed by the plaintiff against the assessments of duties levied and collected by the collector of customs on three separate entries involving importations of aluminum tubing and wiring and similar merchandise which were made at the port of New York on December 17,1951, January 23, 1952, and July 20, 1953. In view of the fact that identical claims were made by plaintiff in all three protests, the protests were consolidated for trial purposes.

The plaintiff claims that the duty assessments are illegal, null, and void because (1) a proper…