United States v. Baumgarten & Co.

Under the tariff act of 1909 the appellees imported into this country a carved marble vase, which is a copy of one of the vases in the Bor-ghese collection at .Home.

Duty was assessed upon the article by the collector at the rate of 50 per cent ad valorem as “marble manufactured into a vase,” under the provisions of paragraph 112 of the act, which reads as follows:

112. Marble, breccia, onyx, alabaster, and jet, wholly or partly manufactured into monuments, benches, vases, and other articles, or of which these substances or either of them is the component material of chief value, and all…