Page v. United States

(orally). The importations in this case consist of steel tubes. The collector classified them under paragraph 152 of the act of 1897 as “steel tubes, finished, not specially provided for in this act.” The importers protested, insisting that they should have been classified under paragraph 135 of the same act as “steel billets”; and an alternative protest under the same paragraph, that they should have been classified as “steel in all forms and shapes, not specially provided for in this act.”

A large amount of testimony was taken before the board of general appraisers and they reached the…