United States v. American Chicle Co.

The merchandise is chicle. The concededly representative sample of the importation, which was made at the port of Detroit, consists of small portions of chicle pronouncedly intermixed with particles of dirt, bark, sticks, and other foreign substances. The record discloses .that the shipment originated in Mexico, was first taken to Toronto, Canada, whereat it was bruised or hammered from larger into smaller particles, in part resacked, and thereupon imported into the United States at the port of Detroit. The collector at that port assessed duty thereupon at the rate of 20 . cents per pound…