Case ID: ct-cust_4/html/0145-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

United States v. Nix & Co. et al.
    
    (No. 1087).
    
    Horse-Radish Roots not Vegetables.
    . The protest rightly claimed the merchandise to he entitled to free entry as a vegetable substance, unmanufactured, under paragraph 630, tariff act of 1909. The case is ruled by United States v. Wallace et al., supra, 4 Ot. Oust. Appls., 142 (T. D. 33413).
    United States Court of Customs Appeals,
    May 6, 1913.
    Appeal from Board of United States General Appraisers, Abstract 30673 (T. D. 32997) and Abstract 30988 (T. D. 33055).
    [Affirmed.]
    
      William L. Wemple, Assistant Attorney General (Charles Duane Baker, special attorney, on the brief), for the United States.
    
      Brooks & Brooks for appellees.
    Before Montgomery, Smith, Barber, De Vries, and Martin, Judges.
    
      
       Reported in T. D. 33414 (24 Treas. Dec., 700).
    
   Martin, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court:

The merchandise involved in this case consists of crude horseradish roots, which were imported in their natural state. They were returned by the appraiser as vegetables in their natural state not specially provided for, and accordingly were assessed with duty at the rate oí 26 per cent ad valorem under paragraph 269 of the tariff act of 1909.

The importers protested against this assessment, claiming that the merchandise was entitled to free entry as a vegetable substance, unmanufactured, under paragraph 630 of the same act.

The protest was sustained by the Board of General Appraisers, and the Government now appeals from that decision.

The foregoing statement discloses the fact that the issue in the present case is identical with that in the case of United States v. Wallace et al., supra (4 Ct. Cust. Appls., 142; T. D. 33413), which is decided by this court concurrently herewith.

In this case, as in the Wallace case, the board held that crude horse-radish roots are not vegetables, but are vegetable substances, unmanufactured, under the tariff act of 1909.

For the reasons set out in the Wallace case, the decision of the board in the present case is affirmed.