Hub Floral Corp. v. United States

WatsoN, Judge:

This case involves the classification of articles known as chenille stems, 12-inch lengths of flexible wire twisted around textile material in a manner which allows the textile fibers to • protrude prominently, giving the article a fuzzy caterpillar-like appearance. The chenille stems were classified as parts of artificial flowers,1 a classification which in the terms of the tariff schedules general interpretive rules presupposes that the use of these articles as parts of artificial flowers exceeds all other uses combined.2

*23Plaintiff argues for classification of the chenille…