United States v. Downing
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Appeal horn a decision of the Board of United States General Appraisers, Abstract 23470. (T. D. 30691).
1Opinion of the CourtDe Vries, Judge
The importing firm imported at the port of Chicago burial and bridal wreaths. They are made up of wax, cotton, tin, wire, and *338other metal. They are in imitation of such articles when made of flowers, leaves, and wire. The Board of General Appraisers found that they were in chief value of metal. It is made perfectly clear by the record that they are at least substantially in part of metal. They were classified for duty by the collector of the port of Chicago under paragraph 425 of the tariff act of 1897 as “artificial or ornamental leaves, flowers, and stems or parts thereof, of whatever…
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