United States v. American Thermo-Ware Co.

Certain disks or pieces of glass, bent, used in the manufacture of “auto goggles” were classified by the collector of customs at the port of New York as coquill glasses with ground edges and accordingly they were assessed for duty at 10 cents per dozen pairs and 45 per cent ad valorem under the provisions of paragraph 106 of the tariff act of August 5, 1909, which paragraph reads as follows:

106. Lenses of glass or pebble, molded or pressed, or ground and polished to a spherical, cylindrical, or prismatic form, and ground and polished piano or coquill glasses, wholly or partly manufactured,…