United States v. Vietor

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States Customs Court in reappraisement No. 53635-A. The merchandise involved consists of black velvet ribbons manufactured in Germany, known *123as pon 90, and imported in several widths. It is composed of a cotton pile, cotton warp, cotton weft, silk-satin back, and artificial silk edges. It was entered at its United States value, and appraised at the foreign value, less 20 per centum, of a ribbon identified in the record as “No. 9,” and sold in the markets of Germany for consumption there.

On the trial before the associate justice, sitting in…