BEST FOODS v. UNITED STATES

C.D. 1945; Protest No. 265823-K.

158 F.Supp. 583 (1957)

The BEST FOODS, Inc. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Customs Court, Third Division.

December 18, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sullivan & Cromwell, Davis & Gilbert, Barnes, Richardson & Colburn, New York City (John F. Dooling, Jr., Joshua Levine, Joseph Schwartz, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff.

George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Dorothy C. Bennett and Richard E. FitzGibbon, New York City, Trial Attys.), for defendant.

Before JOHNSON and DONLON, Judges.


DONLON, Judge.

Plaintiff protests the exaction of a fee, at the rate of 2 cents per pound, laid on peanuts imported April 19, 1955, and prays that the sum thus exacted be refunded. This fee was in addition to regular duty on the imported peanuts at the rate of 7 cents per pound, charged under paragraph 759 of the Tariff Act of 1930, 19 U.S.C.A. § 1001, par. 759. The suit before us has to do only with the fee. Plaintiff raises no issue as to the regular duty....

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