Ross & Co. v. United States

An importation of quince seeds at the port of New York was classified and rated for duty as “seeds not specially provided for" *236within paragraph 212 of the tariff act of 1913. Protestants, who are-the appellants here, claim the seeds entitled to free entry as seeds, aromatic, not garden seeds, under paragraph 477 of that act. The exact phraseology, the foundation of appellants’ claim, is “drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, * * * seeds (aromatic, not garden-seeds), seeds of morbid growth, * * The collector’s return to the board, dated September 27, 1918, recites that his assessment of duty…