United States v. Antilla Trading Co.

This is an appeal by the Government from the judgment of the United States Customs Court, Second Division, granting three petitions of the importer, appellee here, for remission of additional duties .assessed under the provisions of section 489 of the Tariff Act of 1930 upon sixteen shipments of malangas, also called yautias, imported from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, through the port of New York.

The three petitions were consolidated in the trial court and heard together as a single case, it being agreed that all the entries present .similar issues.

It appears that the importer was an…