Adele v. United States

Appellant’s appeal here challenges the judgment of the United States Customs Court, Second Division, which held that certain “body supporting garments known as corsets, trimmed with lace and net”, the chief value of the articles being represented by the corsets which are composed in whole or in part of elastic fabric, were dutiable under paragraph 1629 (a), Tariff Act of 1930, at 90 per centum ad valorem, the judgment approving the classification of the collector.

Appellant claimed in her protest that the merchandise, being composed in part of elastic fabrics, was dutiable as corsets under…