Baggett Transportation Co. v. United States

This is a case on the availability to the government of its reduced shipping rates under section 22 of the Interstate Commerce Act.1 The question is whether those rates apply to shipments, on government bills of lading, of materials *429sold by the government to foreign countries under the Arms Export Control Act.2 We hold that section 22 rates are not applicable to such shipments.

Plaintiff is a motor carrier. In 1977, plaintiff carried explosives for defendant from various depots of defendant to various domestic ports. This was the domestic leg of shipping those explosives to foreign countries…