Gray & Co. v. United States

This appeal involves the legality of the assessment of an additional duty of 10 per centum ad valorem upon certain cheese imported in the form of cakes of an average size of about 2 feet in diameter and 12 inches in height and weighing from 35 to 45 pounds each, on the ■ground that they were not legally marked as provided by section 304 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1922. The section in question reads as follows:

Sec. 304. (a) That every article imported into the United States, which is •capable of being marked, stamped, branded, or labeled, without injury, at the time of its manufacture or…