United States v. Wagman

The issue to be decided in this appeal from the United States Customs Court, Third Division, C. D. 913, arose from the classification of “raw Pig hair washed cleaned, free of Vegetable matter, no moisture, content of 100% Yield hair” as “Bristles, sorted, bunched, or prepared,” at the rate of 3 cents per pound under paragraph 1507 of the Tariff Act of 1930, by the Collector of Customs at the port of New York, and claimed by the importer, appellee here, to be free of duty under paragraph 1637 of said act as “Bristles, crude, not sorted, bunched, or prepared.”

The importer also claimed the…