United States v. A. W. Fenton Co.

Merchandise known as “insulating beads” and sometimes as “lava beads” and used as electrical insulators was assessed for duty by the collector at the port of Cleveland at 55 per centum ad valorem-under paragraph 218 of the Tariff Act of 1922, the pertinent part of. which reads as follows:.' Par. 218. * * * all articles of every description not specially provided for, composed wholly or in chief value of glass or paste, or combinations of glass and paste, blown or partly blown in the mold or otherwise, or colored, cut, engraved, etched, frosted, gilded, ground (except such grinding as is…