Ayres, Bridges & Co. v. United States

Barber, Judge,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court:

■ As to tbe merchandise covered by many of tbe protests in these cases, it is said by tbe board to be composed of a variety of skins of different animals on which the collector assessed duty at tbe rate of 30 per cent ad valorem under paragraph 348 of the tariff act of 1913 as “furs dressed on the skin, not advanced further than dyeing;” and as to that covered by the remainder of the protests that it is *‘fur articles or fur material in a variety of shapes and conditions” assessed under the same paragraph at different rates of duty. This is…