Ash v. United States

Old bagging, imported at Houston, Tex., was classified by the collector as bags made of jute and assessed for duty at 1 cent per pound and 10 per centum ad valorem under that part of paragraph 1018 which reads as follows:

1018. Bags or sacks made from plain woven fabrics of single jute yarns or from twilled or other fabrics composed wholly of jute, not bleached, printed, stenciled, painted, dyed, colored, nor rendered noninflammable, 1 cent per pound and 10 per centum ad valorem; * * *

The importer protested that the bagging was waste bagging or waste sugar sackcloth and that it was • therefore…