Petry v. United States

Certain machines especially adapted to the gold lettering of leather, cardboard, and similar heavy materials, and to the stamping or embossing thereon of gold designs, were classified by the collector at the port of New York as manufactures in part of metal, dutiable at 45 per cent ad valorem under the provisions of paragraph 199, tariff act of 1909, which paragraph reads as follows:

199. Articles or wares not specially provided for in this section, composed wholly or in part of iron, steel, lead, copper, nickel, pewter, zinc, gold, silver, platinum, aluminum, or other metal, and whether…