Domestic Broadtail Producers, Inc. v. United States

Beown, Judge:

This suit against the United States was brought at New York City and tried there to recover about $50,000 of customs duties claimed to have been illegally exacted on certain lambskins imported from the Argentine.

*33The collector of customs took duty as wool on the skins at 27 cents per pound of clean content under subdivision (a) of paragraph 1102 of the wool schedule of the Tariff Act of 1930, which reads as follows:

Pab. 1102. (a) Wools, not specially provided for, not finer than 44s, in the grease or washed, 29 cents per pound of clean content; scoured, 32 cents per pound of clean…