Eastern States Petroleum & Chemical Corp. v. Walker

INGRAHAM, District Judge.

Plaintiff operates a petroleum refinery at Houston with a capacity of 60,000 barrels per day. It seeks to enjoin the Collector and Deputy Collector of Customs at Galveston and Houston, Texas, from refusing to permit plaintiff to import amounts of oil in excess of its import allocation under the Mandatory Oil Import Program promulgated by the President in Proclamation 3279, issued March 10, 1959 (24 F.R. 1781), 19 U.S.C.A. § 1352a note. Plaintiff also seeks a declaratory judgment that it is entitled to an import allocation larger than it received under the program and…