Kwong Chin Chong v. United States

TOWNSEND, Circuit Judge.

These cases involve several sorts of Chinese spirituous beverages imported under the tariff ^act of 1883. Some of them were classified at $2 per gallon, under paragraph 311 of that act. This classification is not now contended by the importers to have been wrong. Such of the items on the invoices, however, as were described under the name “medicine wine,” or similarly, and were returned for duty at 50 cents per pound, under paragraph 118, are now contended to have been not wines and not medicinal, but to have been dutiable at $2 per gallon only, under paragraph 311 of…