United States v. Hercules Antiques

This is an appeal from the judgment of the United States Customs Court, First Division, Abstract 59910, sustaining the protest of appellees, and overruling the collector’s classification of the involved merchandise as an indirect importation from Czechoslovakia. The collector refused to give the importers the benefit of the trade agreement applicable to importations from Holland, but inapplicable to nations under Communist domination.

The pertinent parts of the statues and the Presidential proclamations are:

Paragraph 218 (f), Tariff Act of 1930: ' '(f) Table and kitchen articles and utensils,…