Stein v. United States

The present merchandise was imported under the tariff act of 1913. It was invoiced as “kartoffelwalzmehl,” which is said by counsel to be a German word meaning “potato ground meal.”

The appraiser reported that the article in question consisted of potato flour obtained by reducing entire potatoes with or without the skin to the state of flour by desiccating and grinding, the process involving the application of sufficient heat to materially modify the ■starch granules. The article was returned for duty as a nonenu-merated manufactured article at 15 per cent ad valorem under paragraph 385,…