John Sexton & Co. v. United States

Eicwall, Judge:

This case involves a protest against the collector’s assessment of duty on merchandise described in the invoice as Cuban cane sugar sirup, pineapple-flavored, at 20 per centum ad valorem under paragraph 1558 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as a non-enumerated manufactured article, with an allowance of 20 per centum from that rate as a product of Cuba. Various claims are made in the protest, the chief ODe being that the merchandise is properly dutiable 'under paragraph 502 of the same act, as modified by the Supplemental Cuban Trade Agreement, T. D. 50541, at 0.1 cent per gallon,…