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21 F. Cas. 715

Schneider v. Lawrence

U.S. District Court

Decided December 15, 1853

U.S. District Court · decided 1853-12-15

This was an action brought in the supreme court of New York, to recover back duties imposed by [Cornelius W. Lawrence] the collector of the port of New York on an importation of rocoa. The case was removed into this could; by certiorari.

Decided 1853-12-15

THE COURT

¶1held: 1. That the article was improperly rated as annatto at the custom-house, and subjected to duties under that name, because it had acquired in commerce the name of rocoa, and was bought and sold in trade under that name alone, before the passage of the act of 1842.

¶22. That the plaintiff was not entitled to enter the article as free, under the name of rocoa, nor as being a berry or vegetable “used principally in dyeing or composing dyes,” that exemption applying to the berries or vegetables in their native state, and not after they are transmuted, by manufacture, into a substance which takes a different denomination in trade and commerce.

¶33. That rocoa was a non-enumerated article in the tariff act of 1842, and was subject to duty under section 10, and that, that duty being 20 per cent., the same that was charged upon the article, the plaintiff could not maintain this action — no more than the legal duty having been exacted by the defendant.

¶4Judgment for defendant.

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