Case ID: cust-ct_39/html/0414-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Johnson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Before the Third Division,
    August 27, 1957
    No. 61181.
    protests 145129-K, etc. (New York).
    Abels Wasserberg & Co. et al. v. United States,
   Opinion by

Johnson, J.

In accordance with stipulation of counsel that the merchandise consists of figures similar in all material respects to those passed upon in Wm. S. Pitcairn Corp. v. United States (39 C. C. P. A. 15, C. A. D. 458), the items entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, prior to May 28, 1950, were held dutiable at 20 percent under paragraph 1547 (a), as “Works of art * * * statuary, sculptures, or copies, replicas, or reproductions thereof, valued at not less than $2.50,” and those entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on and after May 28, 1950, were held dutiable at 10 percent under said paragraph, as modified by the Annecy Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (T. D. 52373), supplemented by Presidential proclamation (T. D. 52476).