Sliberman v. United States

Donlon, Judge:

This suit concerns the customs classification of an article included in an importation which the importer described, in the entry documents, as one case containing original paintings. The importer claimed that the entire importation was exempt from duty under paragraph 1807 of the Tariff Act of 1930.

Only one of the several articles included in the entered case is involved in this litigation. The other articles were pencil and crayon drawings, the work of the artist Picasso, which the collector admitted duty free under paragraph 1807, and two wood picture frames which the…