Eitinger Bead Co. v. United States

Oliver, Chief Judge:

The merchandise involved in the suits at bar consists of certain gold- and silver-colored hollow glass round articles imported from Czechoslovakia and entered at the port of New York. They were assessed for duty at 60 per centum ad valorem under paragraph 218 (f), Tariff Act of 1930, as decorated blown glass articles. Several claims are made but the one principally relied on by the importers is that the articles in question are properly dutiable at the rate of 35 per centum ad valorem under paragraph 1503, Tariff Act of 1930, as “beads * * * not specially provided for.”

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