United States v. Myers

This is an appeal by the United States from a decision of the Board of General Appraisers sustaining certain protests of the importers against the assessments of duty made by the collectors upon merchandise imported at the port of Plattsburg, N. Y., through Rouse Point, N. Y., and at the port of Albany, N. Y.

The merchandise imported through the port of Rouse Point consisted of 1,576 pounds of knife-trimmed mica from Canada, invoiced as “rough (knife) trimmed,” and 28,512 pounds of thin-split mica, also from Canada, invoiced as “rough knife-trimmed and split.” The merchandise imported through…