Fensterer & Ruhe v. United States

The question involved in this appeal is the proper classification of certain articles spoken of as rings for incandescent gaslights. The-

*94Boai’d of United'States General Appraisers found that the rings were bisque, liable for duty at 55 per cent advalorem under paragraph 96 of the tariff act of 1897, which reads as follows:

96. All other china, porcelain, parían, bisque, earthen, stone, and crockery ware, and manufactures thereof, or of which the same is the component material of chief value, by whatever name known, not specially provided for in this act, if painted, tinted, stained, enameled,…