Voluntary Customs Duty Deposits May Be Appropriated in Settlement Despite Limitation on Fresh Demand Proceedings

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....Statutory limitation on customs demands restricts the Department from initiating or enforcing a fresh demand, but does not bar settlement-stage appropriation of differential duty voluntarily deposited for earlier imports. Where liability is admitted and the deposit is neither retracted nor controverted, it may be adjusted against that liability. Judicial review of a settlement order remains confined to jurisdictional error, denial of natural justice, manifest legal error, or findings unsupported by the record; it does not permit reappraisal of unchallenged factual findings. The voluntary-duty appropriation therefore remained undisturbed.....