Knickerbocker Mills Co. v. United States

Evans, Judge:

This is an action wherein the plaintiff seeks to recover certain sums of money claimed to have been illegally exacted on an importation of merchandise classed as dried berries at 2}{ cents per pound under paragraph 736 of the Tariff Act of 1930 by the collector of customs at the port of New York. The protest claims that the merchandise is entitled to free entry as a'crude drug under paragraph 1669, or as a crude vegetable substance under paragraph 1722, and by amendment it is claimed to be dutiable as a vegetable substance used for coloring under paragraph 1670 of the said act.…