United States v. Shing Shun & Co.

This importation was peeled melon seeds. We are here called upon to decide whether such merchandise may be properly classified as a “vegetable, cut, sliced, or otherwise reduced in size,” or “a vegetable, parched or roasted, or prepared in any way”; or, whether it is an unenumerated manufactured or unmanufactured article. The Board of General Appraisers held it dutiable as a nonenumerated unmanufactured article, and this is an appeal from that decision.

The facts in the case are exceedingly meager. There is no brief for the respondent, appellee. The testimony in the record, when read in…