Legal Opinion

United States v. St. Joseph's Church

Court of Customs and Patent Appeals

Decided December 8, 1960No. 5025PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the CourtKirupatrick, Judge

This appeal by the Government3 is from the judgment of the United States Customs Court, First Division, C.D. 2134, sustaining the importer’s protest that the imported sedilia should be classified as a pulpit or part of a pulpit under paragraph 1774 of the Tariff Act of 1930, and hence free of duty, rather than as a manufactured article in chief value of marble under paragraph 232(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as classified by the collector.

*43Tbe pertinent paragraphs are:

Paragraph 1774, Tariff Act of 1980, as amended June 12, 1952, 66 Stat. 137:

■Altars, pulpits, communion tables, baptismal…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Benziger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1904

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Greek Orthodox Church of Evangelismos v. United StatesUnited States Customs Court · 1961

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