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Michelin Tire Corp. v. Wages

The question before the U.S. Supreme Court was whether the tires had lost their "distinctive character" as imports once they were unloaded from the sea-vans, sorted, and stored in Michelin's warehouse. However, the court chose sua sponte to investigate the meaning of the Import-Export Clause, noting that "ommentators have uniformly agreed that Low v. Austin misread " to prohibit "nondiscriminatory ad valorem property taxes among prohibited 'imposts' or 'duties.'" The court's decision was that "a nondiscriminatory ad valorem property tax is not the type of state exaction which the Framers of the Constitution or the Court in Brown had in mind as being an 'impost' or 'duty' and that Low v. Austin ' s reliance upon the Brown dictum to reach the contrary conclusion was misplaced." It summarized the purpose of the clause as: