Central Vermont Railway Co. v. United States

The merchandise here is known as discarded pulp felts and is imported from Canada. The original felts of which the importations are pieces were woven fabrics composed entirely of wool, from 8 to 15 feet wide and from 30 to 60 feet long and were used as continuous belts on paper-making machines. When new such fabrics are known as paper-makers’ felts. The life of such felts in a paper mill is from 3 to 6 days to from 3 to 12 weeks, depending among other things upon the grade of paper in the manufacture of which they are used. When holes appear in a felt it is repaired as well- as may be at the…