Moresco Corp. v. United States

Watson, Judge:

This protest involves the importation of certain trichloroethylene which the collector classified at the foil statutory rate of duty of 30 per centum ad valorem under paragraph 18 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as modified by Presidential proclamation T.D. 52788. The assessment was apparently made by virtue of a determination by the collector that the merchandise in question was a product of East *296Germany within the meaning of Presidential proclamation, T.D. 52788.

Plaintiff, though conceding the merchandise is trichloroethylene properly classifiable under paragraph 18 of the Tariff…