...the United States any imported merchandise by means of any fraudulent or false invoice, declaration, affidavit, letter, paper, or by means of any false...or fraudulent practice or appliance whatsoever, or makes any false statement in any declaration under the provisions of section 485 of this act (relating...

...the United States any imported merchandise by means of any fraudulent or false invoice, declaration, affidavit, letter, paper, or by means of any false statement, written or verbal, or by meana of any false or fraudulent practice or appliance whatsoever, or makes any false statement in...

...the United States any imported merchandise by means of any fraudulent or false Invoice, declaration, affidavit, letter, paper, or by means of any false...or fraudulent practice or appliance whatsoever, or makes any false statement in any declaration under the provisions of section 1485 of this title (relating...

...as the customs administration act, under which defendant was indicted, reads as follow«: "That if any owner, importer, consignee, agent, or other person...or appliance whatsoever, or shall be guilty of any wilful act or omission by means whereof the United States shall be deprived of the lawful duties, or...

...that section that any owner, importer, consignee, &c., who shall, with intent to defrand the revenue, make, or attempt to make, any entry of imported merchandise,...any fraudulent or false invoice, affidavit, letter or paper, or by means of any false statement, written or verbal, or who shall be guilty of any wilful...

...port of New York. Section 9 of the customs administrative act provides substantially as follows: If any owner, importer, consignee, agent, or other person...to make any entry of imported merchandise by means ot any fraudulent or false invoice, * * * or by means of any false statement, written or verb,l. *...

...attempt to make any entry of imported merchandise by means of any fraudulent or false invoice * * * or by means of any false or fraudulent practice or...whatsoever, or shall be guilty of any willful act of omission by means whereof the United States shall be deprived of the lawful duties, or any portion...

...Government makes is based upon another section, namely, section 9, which provides that if any owner or agent or other person "shall make or attempt to make...any entry of imported merchandise by means of any fraud ulent or false invoice," and so forth, " or shall be guilty of any willful act or omission by...

...merchandise, was a "false statement" within the meaning of section 9 of said act, which provides — That if any owner, importer, consignee, agent or other person...attempt to make any entry of imported merchandise * * * foy means of any false statement, written or verbal, * * * such merchandise, or the value thereof,...

...commerce of the United States any imported merchandise by means of any fraudulent or fal-e invoicen * * * or shall be guilty of any willful act or omission by means whereof the United States * * * may be deprived of the lawful duties, or any portion thereof, accruing upon the merchandi-e,...