Hensel v. United States

This appeal involves the sole question of the interpretation of a provision of paragraph 448 of the tariff act of 1909. That provision reads:

448. * * * Finished or unfinished bags, purses, and other articles, or parts thereof, made in chief value of metal mesh composed of silver, German silver, or white metal; valued at two dollars.per dozen pieces, ten cents per piece and in addition *118thereto three-fifths of one cent per dozen pieces for each one cent the value exceeds two dollars per dozen * * *.

The italics are, of course, ours.

The importation consisted of a part of a silver mesh bag…