United States v. Hothouse Products Corp.

Uenroot, Judge,

delivered the .opinion of the court:

This is an appeal by the United States from a judgment of the United States Customs Court, sustaining three protests of appellees to the classification by the collector at the port of New York of certain shipments of endives from Belgium as “Vegetables in their natural state,” under paragraph 774 of the Tariff Act of 1930, the pertinent provisions of which read as follows:

Par. 774. Vegetables in their natural state, * * * not specially provided for, 50 per centum ad valorem.

Appellees claimed the merchandise to be dutiable under paragraph 775…