Customs Law Digest

Excerpt from A Digest of the United States Tariff and Customs Laws: With a Schedule of Duties on Imports, Alphabetically Arranged, Giving the Rate of Duty on Each Article, the Provisions of Law Imposing the Duty and the Decisions of the Courts, the Treasury Department, and the Board of General Appraisers, Under Which The For the past Twenty-four years this work has been published periodically to conform to new legislation. The present (eighth) Edition has been revised to the adjournment of Congress, March 4, 1895. The Classification in the Alphabetical Schedule of every article imported (over in number, occupying 241 pages) and the preparation of the Notes on the text of the entire work necessitated careful review of Decisions of the Treasury Department, (indicated by T. D.) covering a period of 34 years, together with the Decisions of the Board of General Appraisers (indicated by G. A.) and of the United States Courts. The Notes are classified for convenient reference. Decisions not Operative under existing laws have been excluded. The Index refers to subjects treated in the notes, as well as to the general text of the work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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