Togasaki v. United States

The evidence shows that the material imported in this case is a Japanese food product called “nori tsukudani.” It is prepared as follows: An edible salt water seaweed, called “nori,” sometimes growing wild, sometimes cultivated, is cut from the rocks upon which it grows, with knives. The leaves of the plant are then washed in fresh water, sun dried and cut into pieces about an inch long. These are cooked for about 10 minutes with shoyu and sugar, the *464material then placed in tin cans and again boiled, after which the cans are hermetically sealed. The product contains about 85 per cent nori, 12…