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ports of high-grade hard rock fell from 105,293 long tons valued at $613,957
in 1931 to 66,009 long tons valued at $405,532 in 1932. In
1932 the Florida district exported 36,540 long tons of high-grade hard rock
with a value of $248,880, or only 1,760 tons less than in 1931. The exports
of high-grade hard rock from the Montana-Idaho district, however, were only
29,263 long tons valued at $154,255, due to the lessened demand from Canada.
This represents a decrease of 54 percent in quantity and 53 percent in value
from 1931. Exports from other customs districts totaled only 206 long tons.
 Imports.—Relatively small quantities of phosphatic materials are
imported into the United States. In 1932 imports amounted to
12,982 long tons valued at $93,847. The 1932 imports were slightly
less in quantity than those in 1931 but considerably lower in value
than in the preceding year, because of the low valuation placed upon
a shipment of apatite from Russia.
 The imports of crude phosphate rock were 6,375 long tons ($70,039). and
had an average value of $10.98 per ton. They included 6,300 long tons from
French Oceania entering Hawaii, 50 tons from United Kingdom into Baltimore,
and 25 tons from Germany into Los Angeles. Imports of Russian apatite totaled
6,607 long tons ($23,808) with an average value of $3.60 per ton; 6,600 tons
entered at Baltimore and 7 tons at New York.
 Invasions of the American market by various phosphatic materials from different
countries, offered at low prices, have led to several attempts to exclude
these and similar material through recourse to the antidumping act of 1921
and the Tariff Act of 1930.
 In 1928 the antidumping law was invoked with respect to imports of phosphate
rock from French Morocco. The phosphate rock in question was entered at Baltimore
between July 18, 1927 and January 19, 1928, at invoice prices ranging from
$6.50 to $7 per ton, less freight which ranged from $2.05 to $2.50 per ton.
The Baltimore customs appraiser, suspecting that the purchase price thereof
was less than the foreign market value, notified the Secretary of the Treasury
of such fact and withheld appraisement. Thereafter on February 9, 1928, the
Secretary of the Treasury made a finding of dumping pursuant to the antidumping
act (T.D. 42577). The customs appraiser then fixed the foreign value at $7.52
per ton and applied the antidumping law. From this judgment of the appraiser
an appeal was taken and heard by a single judge of the United States Customs
Court at Baltimore; at this hearing the foreign market value, based on sales
by the Government in Morocco to farmers, cooperative societies, and manufacturers
in that country, was fixed at $3.98 per ton. The court held that sales by
the Government in the home market (purchasers being prohibited from exporting
the article) created a foreign market value within the meaning of the act,
and the entered value was sustained. Judgment was entered accordingly on
March 29, 1929. (T.D. 43,306.) An appeal was taken from this judgment by
the Government to the Third Division of the United States Customs Court,
which affirmed the judgment of the trial judge. (Circ. 1478.) Appeal was
taken from this judgment to the Court of Customs anct Patent Appeals, which
reversed the judgment of the Third Division (United States v. J. H. Cottman
& Co., 18 C.C.P.A. 132—T.D. 44,095) on one item, namely, that the
trial court erred in not admitting certain evidence.