Vandegrift v. United States

Section 304 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1922 contains the following provision:

That every article imported into the United States, which is capable of being marked, stamped, branded, or labeled, without injury, at the time of its manufacture or production, shall be marked, stamped, branded, or labeled] in legible English words, * * * so as to indicate the country of origin. * * *

In the case at bar the imported merchandise, round cheeses, weighing some 17 to 20 pounds each, were marked by attaching thereto circular metallic tags about 2J£ inches in diameter. Around the upper half of the periphery…