R. J. Saunders & Co. v. United States

Johnson, Judge:

These are protests against the collector’s assessment of duty on viscose rayon staple fiber at 15 per centum ad valo-rem under paragraph 1302 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as modified by the Torquay Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, T. D. 52739. In the original protests, it is claimed that an allowance should have been made for excessive moisture, but this contention was not pressed at the trial. In amendments to the protests, it is claimed—

* * * that the collector of customs in ascertaining the amount of duty due, should have multiplied the appraised unit of…