Edenfruit Products Co. v. United States

Cline, Judge:

This is a suit against the United States in which the plaintiff seeks to recover a part of the duty assessed on pineapple cores imported in a solution of water to which sulphur dioxide has been added. The merchandise was imported from Canada but was produced from Cuban pineapples. Duty was assessed at 2 cents per pound on the net weight of the pineapple cores under the provision for “pineapples * *. * otherwise prepared or preserved, and not specially provided for” in paragraph 747 of the Tariff Act of 1930.

The protest contains a number of claims which may be briefly *135summarized…