Dunlop Bros. v. United States

The importation involved in this case was entered under the tariff act of 1909, and consists of certain silk netting, together with the cardboard cartons which served as the containers thereof.

The collector classified the goods in question as silk netting made on the Lever or Gothrough machine, dutiable at 70 per cent ad valorem, under the provisions of paragraph 350 of the act, holding also that the carton coverings were the usual containers of the merchandise, and that under subsection 18 of section 28 of the act, *232the value of the cartons should be added to the value of the netting in order…