Schneider Bros. v. United States

The merchandise imported in this case consists of two cases of rusty steel chains, entered as old junk, under paragraph 1601 of the free list of the Tariff Act of 1922. It was classified as “iron chains less than five-sixteenths of an inch in diameter,” under paragraph 329 of said act. The Board of General Appraisers sustained this classification and the importers appeal, claiming here, that “ diameter,” as used in said paragraph, refers to the antecedent “chains,” and not to the material of which they are made, and that the chains imported, being not less than three-eighths of an inch “in…