Greenberg v. United States

Lawrence, Judge:

Plaintiff here contends that certain imported merchandise described on the consular invoice as “10,000 metres chains in rolls” consists in fact of chain for use in the manufacture of bicycle chains. It was imported in rolls of 33% or 50 meters being sufficient to produce 22 or 23 bicycle chains.

It appears from the record that each length is exactly the same as every other length, that there is no indication as to where the chain is to he severed in the production of completed chains, and that the exclusive use of the merchandise is either in making or repairing bicycle chains.…